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Functional and evolutionary analysis of alternatively spliced genes is consistent with an early eukaryotic origin of alternative splicing.

Irimia M, Rukov JL, Penny D, Roy SW.

BMC Evol Biol. 2007 Oct 4;7:188.PMID: 17916237 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Evolutionary convergence on highly-conserved 3' intron structures in intron-poor eukaryotes and insights into the ancestral eukaryotic genome.

Irimia M, Roy SW.

PLoS Genet. 2008 Aug 8;4(8):e1000148.PMID: 18688272 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Analysis of evolution of exon-intron structure of eukaryotic genes.

Rogozin IB, Sverdlov AV, Babenko VN, Koonin EV.

Brief Bioinform. 2005 Jun;6(2):118-34. Review.PMID: 15975222 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The origin of introns and their role in eukaryogenesis: a compromise solution to the introns-early versus introns-late debate?

Koonin EV.

Biol Direct. 2006 Aug 14;1:22.PMID: 16907971 [PubMed]Related articlesFree article

Coevolution of genomic intron number and splice sites.

Irimia M, Penny D, Roy SW.

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Comparative genomic analysis of fungal genomes reveals intron-rich ancestors.

Stajich JE, Dietrich FS, Roy SW.

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Intron-rich ancestors.

Roy SW.

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Remarkable interkingdom conservation of intron positions and massive, lineage-specific intron loss and gain in eukaryotic evolution.

Rogozin IB, Wolf YI, Sorokin AV, Mirkin BG, Koonin EV.

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Comparative genomic analysis of the arthropod muscle myosin heavy chain genes allows ancestral gene reconstruction and reveals a new type of 'partially' processed pseudogene.

Odronitz F, Kollmar M.

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Proceedings of the SMBE Tri-National Young Investigators' Workshop 2005. Investigating the intron recognition mechanism in eukaryotes.

Collins L, Penny D; SMBE Tri-National Young Investigators.

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Comparative analysis of amino acid usage and protein length distribution between alternatively and non-alternatively spliced genes across six eukaryotic genomes.

Zhuang Y, Ma F, Li-Ling J, Xu X, Li Y.

Mol Biol Evol. 2003 Dec;20(12):1978-85. Epub 2003 Jul 28.PMID: 12885959 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Endogenous mechanisms for the origins of spliceosomal introns.

Catania F, Gao X, Scofield DG.

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Complex spliceosomal organization ancestral to extant eukaryotes.

Collins L, Penny D.

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Database and analyses of known alternatively spliced genes in plants.

Zhou Y, Zhou C, Ye L, Dong J, Xu H, Cai L, Zhang L, Wei L.

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Influence of intron length on alternative splicing of CD44.

Bell MV, Cowper AE, Lefranc MP, Bell JI, Screaton GR.

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Evolution of SET-domain protein families in the unicellular and multicellular Ascomycota fungi.

Veerappan CS, Avramova Z, Moriyama EN.

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Evolutionary origins of the eukaryotic shikimate pathway: gene fusions, horizontal gene transfer, and endosymbiotic replacements.

Richards TA, Dacks JB, Campbell SA, Blanchard JL, Foster PG, McLeod R, Roberts CW.

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Intron-exon structures of eukaryotic model organisms.

Deutsch M, Long M.

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Intron-dominated genomes of early ancestors of eukaryotes.

Koonin EV.

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A very high fraction of unique intron positions in the intron-rich diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana indicates widespread intron gain.

Roy SW, Penny D.

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