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Early evidence

thumbA notable feature of eukaryotic nuclear pre-mRNA introns is the relatively high level of conservation of the primary sequences of 5' and 3' splice sites over a great range of organisms.

Between 1989 and 1991, several groups reported four independent examples of introns with a splice site that differed from the common intron:

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