Tempo and mode of spliceosomal intron evolution in actin of foraminifera

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-41

  Flakowski, Jérôme ^a   Bolivar, Ignacio ^a   Fahrni, José ^a   Pawlowski, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actin paralogues; Bayesian relaxed molecular clock; Foraminifera; Phylogeny; Spliceosomal introns

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN DEVIATING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; FORAMINIFER; FOSSIL; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLICEOSOME; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURES; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; SPLICEOSOMES; TIME; ZOOPLANKTON;

EUKARYOTA; FORAMINIFERA; PROTISTA;

EID: 33745605777     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0061-z     Document Type: Article

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