Alan B. Rose

The paper examines how intron architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana relates to chromatin features, finding that first intron position and intron number correlate with specific histone marks and gene expression patterns.

The paper shows that intron-mediated enhancement can occur outside of introns and is mediated by specific sequences, not requiring splicing.

The paper investigates intron-mediated enhancement in Arabidopsis thaliana, showing that certain introns can drive gene expression independently of core promoters and alter transcription start sites.