Telonemia, a new protist phylum with affinity to chromist lineages

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1595, 2006, Pages 1833-1842

  Shalchian Tabrizi, K ^a   Eikrem, W ^a   Klaveness, D ^a   Vaulot, D ^b   Minge, M A ^a   Le Gall, F ^b   Romari, K ^b   Throndsen, J ^a   Botnen, A ^a   Massana, R ^c   Thomsen, H A ^d   Jakobsen, K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Covarion substitution pattern; Environmental sequences; Phylogeny; Telonema; Telonemia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; RIBOSOME DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; TUBULIN;

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FLAGELLATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TELONEMIA; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOPHYTA; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FRANCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALVEOLATA; CHROMALVEOLATA; CHROMISTA; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; STRAMENOPILES; TELONEMA;

CRYPTOPHYTA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRANCE; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBULIN;

EID: 33747409449     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3515     Document Type: Article

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