Brian Foley (brianf at med.uvm.edu) wrote:
(on reasons for observed phylogenetic distribution of introns)
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: Reviews of this can be found in:
: Nature Volume 271 page 501 "Why genes in pieces?"
: by Walter Gilbert
: Science Volume 250, pages 1377 to 1382 "How big is the
: Universe of Exons?" by Robert Dorit, Lloyd Schoenbach
: and Walter Gilbert
You should also look at a couple of the following references
presenting alternative views (IMHO, closer to the truth):
Palmer,J. and J. Logsdon (1991) The recent origins of introns.
Curr. Opin. Genet. Devel. 1:470-477.
W.F. Doolittle and A. Stolzfus (1993) Genes in Pieces revisited
Nature 361:403.
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