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SUBMITTER: Molina-Sanchez MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4496777 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molina-Sánchez María Dolores MD Toro Nicolás N
Scientific reports 20150709
Group II introns are self-splicing catalytic RNAs that probably originated in bacteria and act as mobile retroelements. The dispersal and dynamics of group II intron spread within a bacterial genome are thought to follow a selection-driven extinction model. Likewise, various studies on the evolution of group II introns have suggested that they are evolving toward an inactive form by fragmentation, with the loss of the intron 3'-terminus, but with some intron fragments remaining and continuing to ...[more]