Higher ribosomal RNA substitution rates in bacillariophyceae and dasycladales than in Mollusca, Echinodermata, and Actinistia-Tetrapoda

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1032-1038

  Sorhannus, Ulf ^a  

^a EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinistia Tetrapoda; Bacillariophyceae; Dasycladales; divergence time; Echinodermata; evolutionary distance; molecular clock; Mollusca; small subunit ribosomal RNA; taxonomic nucleotide substitution rate; variable positions

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; DIATOM; ECHINODERM; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; VERTEBRATE;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; COELACANTHIMORPHA; DASYCLADALES; ECHINODERMATA; METAZOA; MOLLUSCA; PROTISTA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029814451     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025653     Document Type: Article

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