Evidence for the adaptive evolution of the carbon fixation gene rbcL during diversification in temperature tolerance of a clade of hot spring cyanobacteria

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1237-1246

  Miller, S R ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cyanobacteria; Molecular evolution; rbcL; RuBisCO

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOT SPRINGS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; TEMPERATURE;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037737982     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01831.x     Document Type: Article

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