Loss of the RNA trimethylguanosine cap is compatible with nuclear accumulation of spliceosomal snRNAs but not pre-mRNA splicing or snRNA processing during animal development

• Lin Cheng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Hengyang College of Medicine, University of South China, Hengyang, China

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• Yu Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1567-289X

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• Yi Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, United States of America

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• Tao Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Hengyang College of Medicine, University of South China, Hengyang, China

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• Yong-Zhen Xu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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• Yikang S. Rong

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zdqr03@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Hengyang College of Medicine, University of South China, Hengyang, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9787-9669

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