Phylogenetic relationships of orders within the class Colpodea (phylum Ciliophora) inferred from small subunit rRNA gene sequences

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 605-614

  Lynn, Denis H ^a   Wright, André Denis G ^a,d   Schlegel, Martin ^b   Foissner, Wilhelm ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bresslaua; Bryometopus; Bursaria; Ciliophora; Colpoda; Phylogeny; Platyophrya; Pseudoplatyophrya; Small subunit rRNA

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; GENETIC DISTANCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY;

BRESSLAUA; BRESSLAUA VORAX; BRYOMETOPIDAE; BRYOMETOPUS; BRYOMETOPUS SPHAGNI; BURSARIA TRUNCATELLA; CILIOPHORA; COLPODA; COLPODA INFLATA; COLPODEA; COLPODIDA; COLPODIDAE; CYRTOLOPHOSIDIDAE; GROSSGLOCKNERIIDAE; MYXOZOA; PLATYOPHRYA; PLATYOPHRYA VORAX; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOPLATYOPHRYA; PSEUDOPLATYOPHRYA NANA;

EID: 0032955638     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006503     Document Type: Article

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