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SUBMITTER: Podar M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC134447 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applied and environmental microbiology 20021201 12
Group II introns are catalytic RNAs and mobile retrotransposable elements known to be present in the genomes of some nonmarine bacteria and eukaryotic organelles. Here we report the discovery of group II introns in a bacterial mat sample collected from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent near 9 degrees N on the East Pacific Rise. One of the introns was shown to self-splice in vitro. This is the first example of marine bacterial introns from molecular population structure studies of microorganisms that ...[more]