Intron sequences provide a tool for high-resolution phylogenetic analysis of volvocine algae

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 214-227

  Liss, Michael ^a   Kirk, David L ^b   Beyser, Kurt ^a   Fabry, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Evolution; Intron sequences; Molecular clock; Volvocales; Volvox

Indexed keywords

PYRIMIDINE; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; EXON; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME;

ALGAE, GREEN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DNA, PLANT; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOMASTIGOPHOREA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLICEOSOMES;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYTA; EUDORINA ELEGANS; PLEODORINA ILLINOISENSIS; VOLVOCALES; VOLVOX;

EID: 0030902911     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050198     Document Type: Article

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