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Evolutionary genetics

the view that introns are ancient, present in the earliest genes, and later lost from prokaryotes.

In evolutionary genetics, introns-early hypothesis refers to the view that introns are ancient, present in the earliest genes, and later lost from prokaryotes. This meaning comes from Doolittle (1978) in Nature.[1]

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  1. Doolittle, W. F. (1978). Genes in pieces: were they ever together? Nature, 272(5654), 581-582. https://doi.org/10.1038/272581a0

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