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Minireview The origin of recent introns: transposons? Scott W Roy Address: Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: scottroy@ Published: 29 November 2004 Genome Biology 2004, 5:251 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2004/5/12/251 ? 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract The long-standing question of how genes acquire introns has provoked much debate. A recent study makes considerable progress by identifying numerous recently gained introns in nematodes - although it remains difficult to distinguish d