Spectral analysis, systematic bias, and the evolution of chloroplasts [3]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 573-576

  Lockhart, P J ^a   Howe, C J ^b   Barbrook, A C ^b   Larkum, A W D ^c   Penny, D ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compositional bias; Covarion; Covariotide; Evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis; Phylogenetic inference; Plastid origins

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECTROSCOPY; TREE;

EID: 0032902530     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026139     Document Type: Letter

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