Phylogeny of primary photosynthetic eukaryotes as deduced from slowly evolving nuclear genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1592-1595

  Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a   Iseki, Mineo ^b   Hasegawa, Masami ^c,e   Misawa, Kazuharu ^a   Nakada, Takashi ^a   Sasaki, Narie ^d,f   Watanabe, Masakatsu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^d OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eukaryote evolution; Long branch attraction; Phylogeny; Plastid endosymbiosis; Primary photosynthetic eukaryotes; Taxon sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPH; PHYLOGENY; RED ALGA;

CELL NUCLEUS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34547785048     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm091     Document Type: Article

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