Are Combined Analyses Better Than Single Gene Phylogenies? A Case Study Using SSU rDNA and rbcL Sequence Comparisons in the Zygnematophyceae (Streptophyta)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 612-624

  Gontcharov, Andrey A ^a,b   Marin, Birger ^a   Melkonian, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Institute of Biology and Soil Science   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Combined analyses; Phylogeny; rbcL; SSU rDNA; Streptophyta; Zygnematophyceae

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN RBCL; RIBOSOME DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TAXON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALGAE, GREEN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; STREPTOPHYTA; ZYGNEMOPHYCEAE;

EID: 1542614587     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh052     Document Type: Article

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