... A minor, splicing-independent pathway invol-ving endonucleolytic cleavage within the intron hasalso been identified in yeast and rat [33,45–48]. In addition, in plants and certain yeasts, snoRNAs ... miRNAs.Second, a single gene can host several snoRNAs in various introns, but a gene contains in general onlyone intronic miRNA, or one cluster of miRNAs in asingle intron. The single known exception ... addi-tional genes in the families shown in Table 2 mightcontain still uncharacterized miRNAs. Intriguingly,hsa-mir-211 and -204 are located within an intron ofthe TRPM1 and TRPM3 genes, respectively,...