Assembly of Exons from Unitary Transposa
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Donard S. Dwyer
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The discovery of "genes-in pieces" provided the first evidence that modern proteins evolved through the assembly and shuffling of simpler building blocks-generally equated with exons. In the theoretical model presented here, it is suggested that exons were created from even smaller modules that have