Department of Biochemistry and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Abstract:
Two new and important features of introns have emerged from analysis of the Euglena gracilis chloroplast genome. One is a new class of introns, designated group III, that may be the closest contemporaries to nuclear pre-mRNA introns. The second is introns that are interrupted by other introns termed twintrons.