Chloroplast tRNA(Leu) (UAA) intron sequences provide phylogenetic resolution of seagrass relationships

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 269-283

  Procaccini, Gabriele ^a   Mazzella, Lucia ^a   Alberte, Randall S ^b   Les, Donald H ^c  

^a Laboratorio di Ecologia del Benthos   (Italy)

^b ARETÉ ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast DNA; Parsimony maximum likelihood; Phylogenetics; RbcL; Seagrass; TrnL intron

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA;

ANGIOSPERM; AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GRASS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0033003292     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(98)00099-0     Document Type: Article

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