HUGE thank you to my advisor @stevensalzberg.bsky.social for the invaluable mentorship!
Also please reach out if you'd like to geek out about introns together 🤓

@celineh2ooo.bsky.social and @stevensalzberg.bsky.social compared 3,493 vertebrate genomes to identify 342 gains of introns in human genes, tracing their origins and identifying cases of intronization as a mechanism of intron emergence.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf091

#genome #evolution #introns