Screening intragenomic rDNA for dominant variants can provide a consistent retrieval of evolutionarily persistent ITS (rDNA) sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 417-422

  LaJeunesse, Todd C ^a   Pinzón, Jorge H ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMINANT GENE; EVALUATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, DOMINANT; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34548513305     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.06.017     Document Type: Article

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