@jsantoyo @ProfTomEllis @biorxivpreprint An old fav of mine is this 2006 Koonin paper, which asserts among other things that the selfish genetic ancestor of introns, transposons, and viruses originated before even cellularity: https://t.co/yO0sLo98dj
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https://t.co/frFU4FqjWp "... introns did play a major role in the evolution of biological complexity albeit... not at the earliest stage... but rather at the outset of eukaryogenesis. Thus, there seems to be no real losers in the introns-early vs. introns
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See for comparison this nonsense from: https://t.co/frFU4FqjWp self-splicing introns since the earliest stages of life's evolution--numerous spliceosomal introns invading genes of the emerging eukaryote during eukaryogenesis--subsequent lineage-specific lo