Toward Resolving the Eukaryotic Tree: The Phylogenetic Positions of Jakobids and Cercozoans

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1420-1425

  Rodríguez Ezpeleta, Naiara ^a   Brinkmann, Henner ^a   Burger, Gertraud ^a   Roger, Andrew J ^b   Gray, Michael W ^b   Philippe, Hervé ^a   Lang, B Franz ^a  

^a Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALVEOLATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERCOZOA; DIPLOMONADIDA; EUGLENOZOA; EUKARYOTA; HETEROLOBOSEA; JAKOBIDAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); OXYMONADIDA; PROTISTA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 34547883900     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.07.036     Document Type: Article

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