Covarion shifts cause a long-branch attraction artifact that unites microsporidia and archaebacteria in EF-1α phylogenies

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1340-1349

  Inagaki, Yuji ^a,b   Susko, Edward ^a,b   Fast, Naomi M ^a,c   Roger, Andrew J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NAGAHAMA INSTITUTE OF BIO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Covarion model; EF 1 ; Long branch attraction; Microsporidia; Parallel site rate variation; Phylogenetic artifact

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CELL LINEAGE; EUKARYOSIS; FUNGUS; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; ARTIFACTS; MICROSPORIDIA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MICROSPORIDIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 3042601821     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh130     Document Type: Article

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