Ecdysozoan clade rejected by genome-wide analysis of rare amino acid replacements

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1080-1090

  Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Carmel, Liran ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Coelomata; Ecdysozoa; Microsporidia; Phylogenetic analysis; Rare genomic changes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEGREGATION; GENOME; HOMOPLASY; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TAXON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHORDATA; COELOMATA; ECDYSOZOA; EUKARYOTA; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 34047227628     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm029     Document Type: Article

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