A Molecular Timeline for the Origin of Photosynthetic Eukaryotes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 809-818

  Yoon, Hwan Su ^a   Hackett, Jeremiah D ^a   Ciniglia, Claudia ^b   Pinto, Gabriele ^b   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algal origin; Divergence time estimates; Fossil record; Molecular clock; Plastid

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; VERTEBRATE;

ALGAE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PLASTIDS; TIME FACTORS;

ACRITARCHA; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; MYA; PLANTAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1942469414     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh075     Document Type: Article

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