Plastid sequence evolution: A new pattern of nucleotide substitutions in the cucurbitaceae

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 606-614

  Decker Walters, Deena S ^a   Chung, Sang Min ^b   Staub, Jack E ^b  

^a Cucurbit Network   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast genome; Cucurbitaceae; Nucleotide substitution; Transition bias; Transversion

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE; THYMINE;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUCUMBER; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA STRAND; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE SEPARATION; PLASTID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CUCURBITACEAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITACEAE;

EID: 2342495321     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-2585-z     Document Type: Article

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