The protistan origins of animals and fungi

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-106

  Steenkamp, Emma T ^a,b   Wright, Jane ^a,b   Baldauf, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Animals; Evolution; Fungi; Holozoa; Opisthokonta; Protists

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA TUBULIN; AMINO ACID; BETA TUBULIN; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLATE; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TAXON;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; HOLOZOA (GROUP); ICHTHYOSPOREA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NUCLEARIIDAE; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 28944452833     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj011     Document Type: Article

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