Constraints on protein evolution and the age of the eubacteria/eukaryote split

Systematic Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 568-575

  Miyamoto, Michael M ^a   Fitch, Walter M ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECHINODERM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; TIME; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ECHINODERMATA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PALEONTOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0030309433     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/45.4.568     Document Type: Article

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