Homing of a group II intron in yeast mitochondrial DNA is accompanied by unidirectional co-conversion of upstream-located markers.

Origin and evolution of retroelements based upon their reverse transcriptase sequences.

Yue Xiong, Thomas H. Eickbush · The EMBO Journal · 1990 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Phylogenetics, Reverse Genetics, Comparative Genomics +9

The generality of self-splicing RNA: Relationship to nuclear mRNA splicing

Thomas R. Cech · Cell · 1986 · 470 citations

Transcriptional Regulation, Nuclear Mrna, Natural Sciences +9

Assembly of the mitochondrial membrane system. Structure and nucleotide sequence of the gene coding for subunit 1 of yeast cytochrme oxidase.

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An intron-encoded protein is active in a gene conversion process that spreads an intron into a mitochondrial gene

Alain Jacquier, Bernard Dujon · Cell · 1985 · 392 citations

Gene Conversion Process, Mitochondrial Gene, Mitochondrial Biogenesis +9

Mitochondrial class II introns encode proteins related to the reverse transcriptases of retroviruses

François Michel, B. Franz Lang · Nature · 1985 · 294 citations

Viral Replication, Molecular Virology, Natural Sciences +11