Early evolutionary origin of the planktic foraminifera inferred from small subunit rDNA sequence comparisons

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 672-677

  Wade, Christopher M ^a   Darling, Kate F ^a   Kroon, Dick ^a   Leigh Brown, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eukaryote evolution; Planktic foraminifera; SSU rDNA phylogeny

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; DIPLOMONADIDA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; KINETOPLASTIDA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030442692     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02202115     Document Type: Article

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