Inactivation of group II intron RmInt1 in the Sinorhizobium meliloti genome

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...

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Main Authors: Dolores Molina-Sánchez, María, Toro, Nicolás
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4496777/