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This result provides strong support for the hypothesis that Euascomycetes spliceosomal introns are fixed in a proto-splice site that pre-dates intron insertion.
Most of these Gs are in sites that are >95% conserved in all fungal SSU rRNAs, suggesting that their existence also pre-dates intron insertion.
The proto-splice site pre-dates intron insertion because it is highly conserved in the Euascomycetes rRNAs in both intron-containing and intron-less taxa (see Fig.