Algae or protozoa: Phylogenetic position of euglenophytes and dinoflagellates as inferred from mitochondrial sequences

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-300

  Inagaki, Yuji ^a   Hayashi Ishimaru, Yasuko ^a,d   Ehara, Megumi ^b   Igarashi, Ikuo ^c   Ohama, Takeshi ^a  

^a Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Dinoflagellata; Endosymbiosis; Euglenophyta; Gen etic code; Kinetoplastida; Malarian circle; Mitochondrial COXI gene

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; EUGLENA; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; CODON; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALGAE; APICOMPLEXA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUGLENA; EUGLENIDA; KINETOPLASTIDA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0030876371     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006233     Document Type: Article

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