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Genome biology. 2006-01-01; 7.2: R41.

Intron gain and loss in segmentally duplicated genes in rice

Lin H, Zhu W, Silva JC, Gu X, Buell CR

PMID: 16719932

Abstract

Introns are under less selection pressure than exons, and consequently, intronic sequences have a higher rate of gain and loss than exons. In a number of plant species, a large portion of the genome has been segmentally duplicated, giving rise to a large set of duplicated genes. The recent completion of the rice genome in which segmental duplication has been documented has allowed us to investigate intron evolution within rice, a diploid monocotyledonous species.

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