Origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns

Mirtrons: microRNA biogenesis via splicing

(2011) Jakub O. Westholm et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Comparative analysis of information contents relevant to recognition of introns in many species

(2011) Hiroaki Iwata et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

Integrative annotation of human large intergenic noncoding RNAs reveals global properties and specific subclasses

(2011) M. N. Cabili et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Contrasting 5' and 3' Evolutionary Histories and Frequent Evolutionary Convergence in Meis/hth Gene Structures

(2011) Manuel Irimia et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Origins, Evolution, and Functional Potential of Alternative Splicing in Vertebrates

(2011) J. M. Mudge et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cytoplasmic Intron Sequence-Retaining Transcripts Can Be Dendritically Targeted via ID Element Retrotransposons

(2011) Peter T. Buckley et al.   NEURON

Cryptic splice sites and split genes

(2011) Yuri Kapustin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Phylogenetic Distribution of Intron Positions in Alpha-Amylase Genes of Bilateria Suggests Numerous Gains and Losses

(2011) Jean-Luc Da Lage et al.   PLoS One

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

Trans -splicing

(2011) Erika L. Lasda et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-RNA

Biased hosting of intronic microRNA genes

(2010) David Golan et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Evolution of spliceosomal introns following endosymbiotic gene transfer

(2010) Nahal Ahmadinejad et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

(2010) Jörg Lehmann 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

A spliceosomal intron of mitochondrial DNA origin

(2010) Bruce A. Curtis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A global analysis of C. elegans trans-splicing

(2010) M. A. Allen et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

(2010) T. Lu et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Does Drive Toward Canonic Exonic Splicing Sites Exist in Mammals?

(2010) Vladimir Babenko et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

On the Utility of Short Intron Sequences as a Reference for the Detection of Positive and Negative Selection in Drosophila

(2010) J. Parsch et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Effective Population Size Is Positively Correlated with Levels of Adaptive Divergence among Annual Sunflowers

(2010) J. L. Strasburg et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Primate and Rodent Specific Intron Gains and the Origin of Retrogenes with Splice Variants

(2010) Michał W Szcześniak et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Critical association of ncRNA with introns

(2010) David Rearick et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Global analysis of trans-splicing in Drosophila

(2010) C. J. McManus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plasticity of Animal Genome Architecture Unmasked by Rapid Evolution of a Pelagic Tunicate

(2010) F. Denoeud et al.   SCIENCE

Nonsense-Mediated Decay Enables Intron Gain in Drosophila

(2010) Ashley Farlow et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evolution of alternative and constitutive regions of mammalian 5'UTRs

(2009) Alissa M Resch et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Detection of human interchromosomal trans-splicing in sequence databanks

(2009) R. H. Herai et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Evolution and Functions of Long Noncoding RNAs

(2009) Chris P. Ponting et al.   CELL

An Overview of Nested Genes in Eukaryotic Genomes

(2009) Anuj Kumar   EUKARYOTIC CELL

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

Evidence for Multiple Independent Origins of trans-Splicing in Metazoa

(2009) V. Douris et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Broadscale Phylogenetic Analysis of Group II Intron RNAs and Intron-Encoded Reverse Transcriptases

(2009) D. M. Simon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Effective population size and patterns of molecular evolution and variation

(2009) Brian Charlesworth   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The evolutionary consequences of erroneous protein synthesis

(2009) D. Allan Drummond et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Biogenesis of small RNAs in animals

(2009) V. Narry Kim et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Intron Evolution: Testing Hypotheses of Intron Evolution Using the Phylogenomics of Tetraspanins

(2009) Antonio Garcia-España et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of Alternative Splicing Regulation: Changes in Predicted Exonic Splicing Regulators Are Not Associated with Changes in Alternative Splicing Levels in Primates

(2009) Manuel Irimia et al.   PLoS One

Ubiquitous internal gene duplication and intron creation in eukaryotes

(2009) X. Gao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2009) K. S. Keating et al.   RNA

Extensive, Recent Intron Gains in Daphnia Populations

(2009) W. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

(2009) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

Fine-Scale Variation and Genetic Determinants of Alternative Splicing across Individuals

(2009) Jasmin Coulombe-Huntington et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

Exon definition as a potential negative force against intron losses in evolution

(2008) Deng-Ke Niu   Biology Direct

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

(2008) Malay KUMAR Basu et al.   Biology Direct

Accumulation of GC donor splice signals in mammals

(2008) Alexander Churbanov et al.   Biology Direct

Ancestry and evolution of a secretory pathway serpin

(2008) Abhishek Kumar et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Positive selection acting on splicing motifs reflects compensatory evolution

(2008) S. Ke et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Intron Presence-Absence Polymorphisms in Daphnia

(2008) A. R. Omilian et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Low conservation and species-specific evolution of alternative splicing in humans and mice: comparative genomics analysis using well-annotated full-length cDNAs

(2008) Jun-ichi Takeda et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

A Dual Origin of the Xist Gene from a Protein-Coding Gene and a Set of Transposable Elements

(2008) Eugeny A. Elisaphenko 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

Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers

(2008) E. A. Gladyshev et al.   SCIENCE

Pre-mRNA splicing: a complex picture in higher definition

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

Origins and evolution of eukaryotic RNA interference

(2008) S SHABALINA et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Nested genes and increasing organizational complexity of metazoan genomes

(2008) Raquel Assis et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Origin of introns by ‘intronization’ of exonic sequences

(2008) Manuel Irimia et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Primordial spliceosomal introns were probably U2-type

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

Mystery of intron gain: new data and new models

(2008) Scott William Roy 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

Investigation of Loss and Gain of Introns in the Compact Genomes of Pufferfishes (Fugu and Tetraodon)

(2007) Y.-H. Loh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION