Protein phylogeny of translation elongation factor EF-1α suggests microsporidians are extremely ancient eukaryotes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 257-263

  Kamaishi, Takashi ^a,b   Hashimoto, Tetsuo ^c   Nakamura, Yoshihiro ^a   Nakamura, Fuminori ^a   Murata, Shigenori ^d   Okada, Norihiro ^d   Okamoto, Ken Ichi ^a   Shimizu, Makoto ^b   Hasegawa, Masami ^c  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elongation factor 1 ; Eukaryotes; Glugea plecoglossi; Microsporidians; Mitochondrion lacking protozoa; Protein phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; MICROSPORA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA; GLUGEA PLECOGLOSSI; MICROSPORIDIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0029876871     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02198852     Document Type: Article

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