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Transposable elements drive intron gain in diverse eukaryotes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Proposed mechanisms of de novo intron creation include inexact double strand break repair (8), mitochondrial DNA insertion (9), internal gene duplication (10), and “intronization” of exonic sequence (11). In addition to these ad hoc intron creation mechanisms, the intron-generating transposable elem
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  • Proposed mechanisms of de novo intron creation include inexact double strand break repair (8), mitochondrial DNA insertion (9), internal gene duplication (10), and “intronization” of exonic sequence (11). In addition to these ad hoc intron creation mechanisms, the intron-generating transposable elements (TEs)

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