Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: One of the most intriguing proposals in RNA evolution, that spliceosomal RNAs derive from a group II intron, invokes an evolutionary splitting of the ancestor (Sharp 1991). Conversely, it is hard to imagine the earliest forms of complex RNAs being as large as their modern counterparts, and fusion of originally separate RNA modules has been proposed for the evolution of the ribosome, self-splicing introns, and even tRNA.
Source: RNA
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5274104
Author: KELLY WILLIAMS
Institutions: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2016146491