TWiEVO 16: Breaking in the making of genes
Feb 25, 2017•1 hr 17 min
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Episode description
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Nels and Vincent reveal how introns - the parts of pre-mRNAs that are removed by splicing - were generated by DNA transposons in two different picoeukaryotes.
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- Introns from DNA transposons (Nature)
- Reverse transcription and integration lecture
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