“THE SPLIT STRUCTURE of eukaryotic genes impacts gene expression and evolution in diverse ways. Most directly, the presence of introns enables multiple distinct mRNA and protein products to be produced from the same gene locus through alternative splicing, which is often regulated between tissues or developmental stages.”
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001229
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022