Effects of nucleotide sequence alignment on phylogeny estimation: A case study of 18S rDNAs of apicomplexa

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 428-441

  Morrison, David A ^a   Ellis, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; maximum likelihood; neighbor joining; parsimony; phylogenetics; rRNA; sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

APICOMPLEXA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0030934592     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025779     Document Type: Article

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