Protein phylogenies and signature sequences: A reappraisal of evolutionary relationships among archaebacteria, eubacteria, and eukaryotes

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1435-1491

  Gupta, Radhey S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS-THERMUS; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; THERMUS;

EID: 0031794743     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.62.4.1435-1491.1998     Document Type: Article

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