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内含子的起源与进化 牛登科 北京师范大学生命科学学院 /tabid/88/Default.aspx dkniu@, dengkeniu@What is an intron? Categories of introns Spliceosomal introns: Major intron, U2-dependent, GT……AG; Minor intron, U12-dependent, AT……AC. Most of the studies on intron evolution are focused on spliceosomal introns. And in most papers, without further annotation, the term intron means spliceosomal introns. Self splicing introns: Group I and Group II introns tRNA and/or archaeal introns Origin of introns One exon --- one function unit, building blocks of genes since the origin of genes Introns have been found in almost