Analyses of RNA polymerase II genes from free-living protists: Phylogeny, long branch attraction, and the eukaryotic big bang

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 830-840

  Dacks, Joel B ^a   Marinets, Alexandra ^a   Doolittle, W Ford ^a   Cavalier Smith, Thomas ^a   Logsdon Jr , John M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cercomonas; Evolution; Intron; Naegleria; Nucleomorph; Ochromonas

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARTICLE; CERCOMONAS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; LONG BRANCH ATTRACTION; NAEGLERIA GRUBERI; NONHUMAN; OCHROMONAS DANICA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RED ALGA; TAXON; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ALGAE; AMOEBOZOA; ANIMALIA; CERCOMONAS; CERCOMONAS ATCC50319; CERCOZOA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GUILLARDIA THETA; HETEROLOBOSEA; MASTIGAMOEBA; MASTIGAMOEBA INVERTENS; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA GRUBERI; OCHROMONAS; OCHROMONAS DANICA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; RHODOPHYTA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 0036269480     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004140     Document Type: Article

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