Consideration of RNA secondary structure significantly improves likelihood-based estimates of phylogeny: Examples from the bilateria

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1129-1136

  Telford, Maximilian J ^a   Wise, Michael J ^b   Gowri Shankar, Vivek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilateria; Phylogeny; Ribosomal RNA; Secondary structure maximum likelihood Bayesian analysis

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA;

ANNELID WORM; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BAYES THEOREM; CHORDATA; ECHINODERM; EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA;

EID: 16344384719     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi099     Document Type: Article

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