Investigating deep phylogenetic relationships among cyanobacteria and plastids by small subunit rRNA sequence analysis

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 327-338

  Turner, Seán ^a   Pryer, Kathleen M ^b   Miao, Vivian P W ^c   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kishino Hasegawa test; Maximum likelihood; Relative likelihood support (RLS) scores

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; RIBOSOMAL RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033166540     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1999.tb04612.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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