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Bacterial Group II Introns: Identification and Mobility Assay

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Group II introns are large catalytic RNAs and mobile retroelements that encode a reverse transcriptase. Here, we provide methods for their identification in bacterial genomes and further analysis of their splicing and mobility capacities.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by research grants CSD 2009-0006 from the Consolider-Ingenio program, and BIO2011-24401 from the currently Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, including ERDF (European Regional Development Funds).

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  1. Grupo de Ecología Genética de la Rizosfera, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Profesor Albareda 1, 18008, Granada, Spain

    Nicolás Toro Ph.D., María Dolores Molina-Sánchez, Rafael Nisa-Martínez, Francisco Martínez-Abarca & Fernando Manuel García-Rodríguez

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Toro, N., Molina-Sánchez, M.D., Nisa-Martínez, R., Martínez-Abarca, F., García-Rodríguez, F.M. (2016). Bacterial Group II Introns: Identification and Mobility Assay. In: Garcia-Pérez, J. (eds) Transposons and Retrotransposons. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1400. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3372-3_2

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