Lineage-specific variations of congruent evolution among DNA sequences from three genomes, and relaxed selective constraints on rbcL in Cryptomonas (Cryptophyceae)

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Hoef Emden, Kerstin ^a   Tran, Hoang Dung ^a   Melkonian, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOMONAS; CRYPTOMONAS PARAMAECIUM; CRYPTOPHYTA;

ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CODON; CYSTEINE; DNA; HISTIDINE; PHENYLALANINE; RBCL PROTEIN, PLASTID; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; TYROSINE;

BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; CODON; CRYPTOPHYTA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYSTEINE; DNA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HISTIDINE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHENYLALANINE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TYROSINE;

EID: 28044472545     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-56     Document Type: Article

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