Whence genes in pieces: reconstruction of the exon-intron gene structures of the last eukaryotic common ancestor and other ancestral eukaryotes

Origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns

(2012) Igor B Rogozin et al.   Biology Direct

Horizontal gene transfer of microbial cellulases into nematode genomes is associated with functional assimilation and gene turnover

(2011) Werner E Mayer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Assessing the contribution of alternative splicing to proteome diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana using proteomics data

(2011) Edouard I Severing et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Introns within Ribosomal Protein Genes Regulate the Production and Function of Yeast Ribosomes

(2011) Julie Parenteau et al.   CELL

Horizontal Gene Transfer in Nematodes: A Catalyst for Plant Parasitism?

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A Detailed History of Intron-rich Eukaryotic Ancestors Inferred from a Global Survey of 100 Complete Genomes

(2011) Miklos Csuros et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Evolution of spliceosomal introns following endosymbiotic gene transfer

(2010) Nahal Ahmadinejad et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolutionary dynamics of U12-type spliceosomal introns

(2010) Chiao-Feng Lin et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Genome of Naegleria gruberi Illuminates Early Eukaryotic Versatility

(2010) Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin et al.   CELL

Function annotation of the rice transcriptome at single-nucleotide resolution by RNA-seq

(2010) T. Lu et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Constrained Intron Structures in a Microsporidian

(2010) R. C. H. Lee et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Alternative splicing and evolution: diversification, exon definition and function

(2010) Hadas Keren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Multiple lateral gene transfers and duplications have promoted plant parasitism ability in nematodes

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Complex selection on 5' splice sites in intron-rich organisms

(2009) M. Irimia et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Genome-wide mapping of alternative splicing in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2009) S. A. Filichkin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Intron-Dominated Genomes of Early Ancestors of Eukaryotes

(2009) E. V. Koonin   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

An Overview of the Introns-First Theory

(2009) David Penny et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

A structural analysis of the group II intron active site and implications for the spliceosome

(2009) K. S. Keating et al.   RNA

Genomic Survey of the Non-Cultivatable Opportunistic Human Pathogen, Enterocytozoon bieneusi

(2009) Donna E. Akiyoshi et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Malin: maximum likelihood analysis of intron evolution in eukaryotes

(2008) M. Csuros   BIOINFORMATICS

U12 intron positions are more strongly conserved between animals and plants than U2 intron positions

(2008) Malay KUMAR Basu et al.   Biology Direct

Extremely Intron-Rich Genes in the Alveolate Ancestors Inferred with a Flexible Maximum-Likelihood Approach

(2008) M. Csuros et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Deep surveying of alternative splicing complexity in the human transcriptome by high-throughput sequencing

(2008) Qun Pan et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Computational screen for spliceosomal RNA genes aids in defining the phylogenetic distribution of major and minor spliceosomal components

(2008) Marcela Dávila López et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Primordial spliceosomal introns were probably U2-type

(2008) Malay Kumar Basu et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Where Do Introns Come From?

(2008) Francesco Catania et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Convergence on Highly-Conserved 3′ Intron Structures in Intron-Poor Eukaryotes and Insights into the Ancestral Eukaryotic Genome

(2008) Manuel Irimia et al.   PLoS Genetics

Alternative splicing: current perspectives

(2007) Eddo Kim et al.   BIOESSAYS