The root of the tree of life in the light of the covarion model

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 496-508

  Lopez, Philippe ^a   Forterre, Patrick ^a   Philippe, Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Covarion; Elongation factors; Long branch attraction; Mutational saturation; Root of the tree of life

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; ELONGATION FACTOR 2;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032825223     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006572     Document Type: Article

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