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TWiEVO 16: Breaking in the making of genes
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:17:17
Publish Date: 2017-02-25 07:40:50
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Nels and Vincent reveal how introns - the parts of pre-mRNAs that are removed by splicing - were generated by DNA transposons in two different picoeukaryotes.

 

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