In many eukaryotes, including mammals, plants, yeast, and insects, introns can increase
gene expression without functioning as a binding site for transcription factors. This …

The intron has been a big biological mystery since it was first discovered in several aspects.
First, all of the completely sequenced eukaryotes harbor introns in the genomic structure …

The large size and complexity of most fern genomes have hampered efforts to elucidate
fundamental aspects of fern biology and land plant evolution through genome-enabled …

CRISPR/Cas9 is a powerful genome editing tool in many organisms, including a number of
monocots and dicots. Although the design and application of CRISPR/Cas9 is simpler …

A picture is beginning to emerge from a variety of organisms that for a subset of genes, the
most important sequences that regulate expression are situated not in the promoter but …

Microbial oil production by heterotrophic organisms is a promising path for the cost-effective
production of biofuels from renewable resources provided high conversion yields can be …

The recent discovery of the mode of action of the CRISPR/Cas9 system has provided
biologists with a useful tool for generating site-specific mutations in genes of interest. In …

The exon junction complex (EJC) is deposited onto mRNAs following splicing and adopts a
unique structure, which can both stably bind to mRNAs and function as an anchor for diverse …

Two genomic clones (λUbi-1 and λUbi-2) encoding the highly conserved 76 amino acid
protein ubiquitin have been isolated from maize. Sequence analysis shows that both genes …

Although it has been known since the late 1970s that intron-containing and intronless
versions of otherwise identical genes can exhibit dramatically different expression profiles …