Spliceosomal Introns: Features, Functions, and Evolution

Introns are mediators of cell response to starvation

(2019) Julie Parenteau et al.   NATURE

Excised linear introns regulate growth in yeast

(2019) Jeffrey T. Morgan et al.   NATURE

Intronic CNVs and gene expression variation in human populations

(2019) Maria Rigau et al.   PLoS Genetics

The exon–intron gene structure upstream of the initiation codon predicts translation efficiency

(2018) Chun Shen Lim et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genome-wide analyses supported by RNA-Seq reveal non-canonical splice sites in plant genomes

(2018) Boas Pucker et al.   BMC GENOMICS

How introns enhance gene expression

(2017) Orit Shaul   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

A mechanism for a single nucleotide intron shift

(2017) Erzsébet Fekete et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Splice Sites Seldom Slide: Intron Evolution in Oomycetes

(2016) Steven Sêton Bocco et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The evolution mechanism of intron length

(2016) Qiang Zhang et al.   GENOMICS

How Common Is Parallel Intron Gain? Rapid Evolution Versus Independent Creation in Recently Created Introns inDaphnia

(2016) Scott William Roy   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Intron Length Coevolution across Mammalian Genomes

(2016) Peter A. Keane et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Spliceosomal intronogenesis

(2016) Sujin Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence That Base-pairing Interaction between Intron and mRNA Leader Sequences Inhibits Initiation ofHAC1mRNA Translation in Yeast

(2015) Leena Sathe et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Why Selection Might Be Stronger When Populations Are Small: Intron Size and Density Predict within and between-Species Usage of Exonic Splice Associatedcis-Motifs

(2015) XianMing Wu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Recursive splicing in long vertebrate genes

(2015) Christopher R. Sibley et al.   NATURE

A comprehensive survey of non-canonical splice sites in the human transcriptome

(2014) Guillermo E. Parada et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Length and GC Content Variability of Introns among Teleostean Genomes in the Light of the Metabolic Rate Hypothesis

(2014) Ankita Chaurasia et al.   PLoS One

Genome-Level Analysis of Selective Constraint without Apparent Sequence Conservation

(2013) Olga A. Vakhrusheva et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Evolution and Functional Significance of Nested Gene Structures in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) Y. C. G. Lee et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns

(2012) Igor B Rogozin et al.   Biology Direct

The Evolution of Intron Size in Amniotes: A Role for Powered Flight?

(2012) Qu Zhang et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Function of Introns

(2012) Michal Chorev et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Evidence for intron length conservation in a set of mammalian genes associated with embryonic development

(2011) Cathal Seoighe et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Mechanisms of intron gain and loss in Drosophila

(2011) Paul Yenerall et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Julie Parenteau et al.   CELL

The Genomic Signature of Splicing-Coupled Selection Differs between Long and Short Introns

(2011) A. Farlow et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Selection for the compactness of highly expressed genes in Gallus gallus

(2010) You S Rao et al.   Biology Direct

Some novel intron positions in conserved Drosophila genes are caused by intron sliding or tandem duplication

(2010) Jörg Lehmann et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Critical association of ncRNA with introns

(2010) David Rearick et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

An Overview of Nested Genes in Eukaryotic Genomes

(2009) Anuj Kumar   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Intron-Dominated Genomes of Early Ancestors of Eukaryotes

(2009) E. V. Koonin   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Effective population size and patterns of molecular evolution and variation

(2009) Brian Charlesworth   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Peculiarities of Large Intron Splicing in Animals

(2009) Samuel Shepard et al.   PLoS One

Longer First Introns Are a General Property of Eukaryotic Gene Structure

(2008) Keith R. Bradnam et al.   PLoS One

Alternative splicing: A missing piece in the puzzle of intron gain

(2008) R. Tarrio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pre-mRNA splicing: a complex picture in higher definition

(2008) Matthew J. Schellenberg et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Nested genes and increasing organizational complexity of metazoan genomes

(2008) Raquel Assis et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS