Phylogenetic analysis of carbamoylphosphate synthetase genes: Complex evolutionary history includes an internal duplication within a gene which can root the tree of life

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 970-977

  Lawson, Fiona S ^a   Charlebois, Robert L ^a   Dillon, Jo Anne R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

arginine biosynthesis; carbamoylphosphate synthetase; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; phylogenetic trees; pyrimidine biosynthesis; rooted trees; Sulfolobus solfataricus P2; tree of life

Indexed keywords

CARBAMATE KINASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POSIBACTERIA; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 0029815789     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025665     Document Type: Article

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