The origin of recent introns: transposons?

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Published in Genome Biol on November 29, 2004

Authors

Scott W Roy1

Author Affiliations

1: Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. scottroy@fas.harvard.edu

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