Phylogenetic position of the mitochondrion-lacking protozoan Trichomonas tenax, based on amino acid sequences of elongation factors 1α and 2

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 98-105

  Yamamoto, Ayako ^a   Hashimoto, Tetsuo ^b   Asaga, Emiko ^a   Hasegawa, Masami ^b   Goto, Nobuichi ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elongation factor 1 ; Elongation factor 2; Mitochondrion lacking protozoa; Phylogenetic tree; Protein evolution; Trichomonas tenax

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; ELONGATION FACTOR 2;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; TRICHOMONAS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 2; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRICHOMONAS;

EID: 0031015293     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006127     Document Type: Article

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