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[Geoff McFadden]

What's the smallest known spliceosomal intron?  So far the smallest I can
track down is the 35bp intron in the cut7 gene of fission yeast (Nature
347:563-6).  Does anybody know of any published (or unpublished)
spliceosomal introns less than 35bp?  My grad student and I have found a
gene with three (apparently spliceosomal) introns of 19bp, so we may be
claiming a new record.

Thanks,
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