A molecular approach to the tangled intrageneric relationships underlying phylogeny in Euplotes (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 118-130

  Petroni, Giulio ^a   Dini, Fernando ^a   Verni, Franco ^a   Rosati, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Euplotida; Evolutionary rate; Hypotrichs; Small subunit rRNA sequences; SSrRNA; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTIDA; HYPOTRICHIA; SPIROTRICHEA;

EID: 0036362507     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2001.1030     Document Type: Article

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