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SUBMITTER: Omilian AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2727387 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Omilian Angela R AR Scofield Douglas G DG Lynch Michael M
Molecular biology and evolution 20080729 10
Here, we report 2 novel intron gains segregating in populations of Daphnia pulex endemic to Oregon. These novel introns do not have an obvious source and are not present in any D. pulex populations outside Oregon, other species of Daphnia that we examined, or any other organism for which sequence data are available. Furthermore, the novel introns are both found in the same gene, a Rab GTPase (rab4), and they appear to differ in their insertion site by one base pair, providing some support to the ...[more]