Sister group relationship of turtles to the bird-crocodilian clade revealed by nuclear DNA-coded proteins

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 810-813

  Iwabe, Naoyuki ^a   Hara, Yuichiro ^a,c   Kumazawa, Yoshinori ^b   Shibamoto, Kaori ^a,d   Saito, Yumi ^a,e   Miyata, Takashi ^a,f,g   Katoh, Kazutaka ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^e RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^f Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^g WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amniote phylogeny; Anapsid; Archosaur; Lepidosaur; Turtle

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHOSPHORIBOSYLAMINE GLYCINE LIGASE; PHOSPHORIBOSYLFORMYLGLYCINAMIDINE CYCLO-LIGASE; PHOSPHORIBOSYLGLYCINAMIDE FORMYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLIGATOR; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLADISTICS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REPTILE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SISTER GROUP; TURTLE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES;

EID: 16344381907     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi075     Document Type: Article

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