Retortamonad flagellates are closely related to diplomonads - Implications for the history of mitochondrial function in eukaryote evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 777-786

  Silberman, Jeffrey D ^a   Simpson, Alastair G B ^a   Kulda, Jaroslav ^a   Cepicka, Ivan ^a   Hampl, Vladimir ^a   Johnson, Patricia J ^a   Roger, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archezoa; Evolution; Mitochondria; Retortamonas; ssu rRNA

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; COMMENSALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GIARDIA; INTESTINE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

AMPHIBIA; ARCHEZOA; DIPLOMONADIDA; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; MAMMALIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); RETORTAMONADIDAE; RETORTAMONAS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036095568     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004135     Document Type: Article

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