The presence of a haloarchaeal type tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase marks the opisthokonts as monophyletic

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2142-2146

  Huang, Jinling ^a,b,c   Xu, Ying ^d   Gogarten, Johann Peter ^c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient gene transfer; Eukaryotic evolution; Opisthokonts; Tyrosyl tRNA synthetase

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOSS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOPHYLY; PARALOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BAYES THEOREM; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; FUNGI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TYROSINE-TRNA LIGASE;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP;

EID: 26444543426     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi221     Document Type: Article

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