An ancient spliceosomal intron in the ribosomal protein L7a gene (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Rpl7a</Emphasis>) of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Giardia lamblia</Emphasis>
(1) Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, B3H 1X5 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Abstract:
Background
Only one spliceosomal-type intron has previously been identified in the unicellular eukaryotic parasite, Giardia lamblia (a diplomonad). This intron is only 35 nucleotides in length and is unusual in possessing a non-canonical 5' intron boundary
sequence, CT, instead of GT.