Curiously modern DNA for a "250 million-year-old" bacterium

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 134-137

  Nickle, David C ^a   Learn, Gerald H ^a   Rain, Matthew W ^a   Mullins, James I ^a   Mittler, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Halophiles; Molecular clock; Phylogenetic; Relative rates test; Two hundred fifty million year old bacterium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SALIBACILLUS MARISMORTUI; STATISTICS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0036132739     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-001-0025-x     Document Type: Article

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