Roy Scott W
Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Genome Biol. 2004;5(12):251. doi: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-12-251. Epub 2004 Nov 29.
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 definitively between models of intron gain.
基因如何获得内含子这一长期存在的问题引发了诸多争论。最近一项研究通过在线虫中识别出大量近期获得的内含子取得了重大进展——尽管要明确区分内含子获得的不同模型仍然很困难。