The origin of chlorarachniophyte plastids, as inferred from phylogenetic comparisons of amino acid sequences of EF-Tu

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 682-687

  Ishida, Ken Ichiro ^a   Cao, Ying ^b   Hasegawa, Masami ^d   Okada, Norihiro ^a   Hara, Yoshiaki ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlorarachniophyceae; Elongation factor Tu; Endosymbiosis; Origin of plastids; Protein phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL B; ELONGATION FACTOR TU;

ALGA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PROTOZOON; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPSIS MAXIMA; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUGLENIDA; EUKARYOTA; GYMNOCHLORA STELLATA; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROTOZOA; PYRAMIMONAS DISOMATA; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0031450395     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006272     Document Type: Article

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