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ArticlePeerJ2017

Transcriptomic analysis of diplomonad parasites reveals a trans-spliced intron in a helicase gene in

Scott William Roy

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Article in PeerJ, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Scott William RoyDepartment of Biology, San Francisco State University , San Francisco , CA , United States.
San Francisco State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe mechanisms by which DNA sequences are expressed is the central preoccupation of molecular genetics. Recently, ourselves and others reported that in the diplomonad protist

methodsI leverage newly available transcriptomic data from

resultsScrutiny of thousands of potential cases revealed only a single additional trans-spliced intron in DISCUSSION: These results serve to circumscribe the role of trans-splicing in diplomonads both in terms of the number of genes effected and taxonomically. Future work should focus on the molecular mechanisms, evolutionary origins and phenotypic implications of this intriguing phenomenon.

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Genome complexityProtist molecular biologyTrans-splicing

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PMID28090405
PMCPMC5224939
OpenAlexW2950412539

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