Patterns of nucleotide change in mitochondrial ribosomal RNA genes and the phylogeny of piranhas

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-182

  Ortí, Guillermo ^a,d   Petry, Paulo ^b   Porto, Jorge I R ^b   Jégu, Michel ^b,c   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Mitochondrial rRNA sequences; Molecular phylogeny; rRNA secondary structure; Serrasalminae

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FISH; HELMINTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 0030012168     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02198843     Document Type: Article

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