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According to the Telegraph , this is the worst disaster to befall the pigeon world since 80,000 British homing pigeons were killed by torrential rain over the English Channel in June 1997.
However, once the intron containing allele is fixed in the population, the endonuclease, which itself had been the reason for the rapid spread of the intron in the population, is no longer under selection, the endonuclease becomes non-functional and is lost, resulting in an intron without homing endonuclease activity.
Interestingly, the ΔA54 mutant gave a frequency of 0.003%, but upon sequencing the homing products, no true ΔA54 mutation was found.
The cyclic reinvasion model also explains why the insertion site is in a region of very low substitution rates: The high degree of sequence similarity surrounding the integration point facilitates the intein transfer between different populations and species using the homing endonuclease.
A more variable sequence surrounding the integration point would restrict homing to members of the same species, and would thus lower the chances for long term survival of the intein.