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Cyanobacterial ribosomal RNA genes with multiple, endonuclease-encoding group I introns

Peik Haugen1,6*, Debashish Bhattacharya1, Jeffrey D Palmer2, Seán Turner3, Louise A Lewis4 and Kathleen M Pryer5

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, 446 Biology Building, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

2 Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

3 National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, MSC 6510, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

4 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA

5 Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA

6 Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:159 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-159

Published: 8 September 2007

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Additional file 1:

Oligonucleotides used in this study. Primers used for amplication and sequencing 23S rRNA (including introns and homing endonuclease genes) in Synechococcus.

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Group I intron dataset. Nexus formatted intron data set.

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Homing endonuclease data set. Nexus formatted homing endonuclease data set.

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