It appears that the large subunit of the ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase gene (rbcL) does not contain introns, at least not in the species I have checked (e.g., Camellia impressinervis; see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/17098326 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_022461.1?report=fasta&from=57095&to=58522). Does anybody know if it does contain introns in any species? If so, could you point me to the complete gene sequence with exon/intron boundaries, please? Thanks.
I have gone through several publication related to chloroplast genome. Till date, I have not found intron in rbcL gene.
Right. But does that mean they have not been sequenced or that this gene is actually free of introns? If this is a chloroplast gene, it would make sense that it does not contain introns, but is it?
I have seen the complete rbcl/matk gene sequences in Dasylirion, and I don't see any introns
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