The Rieske protein: A case study on the pitfalls of multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic reconstruction

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1180-1191

  Lebrun, Evelyne ^a   Santini, Joanne M ^b   Brugna, Myriam ^a   Ducluzeau, Anne Lise ^a   Ouchane, Soufian ^c   Schoepp Cothenet, Barbara ^a   Baymann, Frauke ^a   Nitschke, Wolfgang ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics; Indel; Lateral gene transfer; Phylogeny; Rieske protein

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME B; ENZYME; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX III; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, RRNA; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFOLOBUS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33646894324     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msk010     Document Type: Article

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