title: The origin of recent introns: transposons?
abstract: The long-standing question of how genes acquire introns has provoked much debate. A recent study makes considerable progress by identifying numerous recently gained introns in nematodes - although it remains difficult to distinguish definitively between models of intron gain.
authors.affiliation: Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. scottroy@fas.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Scott W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002107:Caenorhabditis / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D007438:Introns; D017381:Spliceosomes