Nuclear ribosomal pseudogenes resolve a corroborated monophyly of the eucalypt genus Corymbia despite misleading hypotheses at functional ITS paralogs

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 752-764

  Ochieng, Joel W ^a,c   Henry, Robert J ^a   Baverstock, Peter R ^a   Steane, Dorothy A ^b   Shepherd, Mervyn ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Eucalypt; Gene duplication; Paralog; Paraphyletic; Phylogeny; Pseudogene; Riboform; Ribosomal ITS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EUCALYPTUS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENE; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUCALYPTUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34447292525     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.04.017     Document Type: Article

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