Diversification of a chimaeric algal group, the chlorarachniophytes: Phylogeny of nuclear and nucleomorph small-subunit rRNA genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-331

  Ishida, K ^a   Green, B R ^a   Cavalier Smith, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cercozoa; Chlorarachniophytes; Nucleomorph; Secondary endosymbiosis; Small subunit rRNA phylogeny; Ulvophyceae

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ALGA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHIMERA; FUNGAL GENETICS; LIFE CYCLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0032989696     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026113     Document Type: Article

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