Sense-antisense gene overlap causes evolutionary retention of the few introns in Giardia genome and the implications
Min Feng Xue, Bing Chen, Qingqing Ye, Jingru Shao, Zhangxia Lyu, Jianfan Wen
The paper investigates intron retention in Giardia, finding that sense-antisense gene overlaps, not intron function, likely explain their retention despite evolutionary pressure for loss.
bioRxiv · Jun 4, 2018 · PreprintGenomics