Ribosomal RNA genes and deuterostome phylogeny revisited: More cyclostomes, elasmobranchs, reptiles, and a brittle star

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1005-1022

  Mallatt, Jon ^a   Winchell, Christopher J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

28S rRNA; Ambulacraria; Asterozoa; Chordata; Hexanchformes; Molecular phylogeny; Parametric bootstrapping; Ribosomal RNA genes; Vertebrata

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S; RNA 28S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHINODERM; ELASMOBRANCHII; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; ECHINODERMATA; ELASMOBRANCHII; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOPTERYGII; AMNIOTA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANOLIS; ASTEROIDEA; ASTEROZOA; AVES; BATOIDEA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CERATODONTIDAE; CHLAMYDOSELACHIDAE; CHLAMYDOSELACHUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; CHORDATA; CHRYSEMYS; COELACANTHIDAE; DANIO; DANIO RERIO; DEUTEROSTOMIA; DIPNOI; ECHINODERMATA; ELASMOBRANCHII; GEOTRIA; HAGFISH; HEMICHORDATA; HEXANCHIDAE; HEXANCHIFORMES; HEXANCHUS; MAMMALIA; MORDACIA MORDAX; MYXINE; MYXINE GLUTINOSA; MYXINIDAE; NARCINE; OPHIOMYXA; OPHIUROIDEA; PETROMYZONTIDAE; PISCES; POLYPTERUS; PROTOPTERIDAE; RATTUS; REPTILIA; SALMONIDAE; SQUAMATA; TELEOSTEI; TESTUDINES; TETRAPODA; TORPEDINIFORMES; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34249276761     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.11.023     Document Type: Article

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