Phylogenetic placement of diverse amoebae inferred from multigene analyses and assessment of clade stability within 'Amoebozoa' upon removal of varying rate classes of SSU-rDNA

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 339-352

  Tekle, Yonas I ^a   Grant, Jessica ^a   Anderson, O Roger ^d   Nerad, Thomas A ^c   Cole, Jeffrey C ^b   Patterson, David J ^e   Katz, Laura A ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Protistology Department   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^e MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amoeba; Multigene analysis; Sarcodina; SSU rDNA; Supergroups; Unicellular eukaryote

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

AMOEBA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMOEBA (GENUS); AMOEBOZOA; ARACHNULA; ARCELLA HEMISPHAERICA; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; RHIZAMOEBA; SARCODINA; TRICHOSPHAERIUM;

EID: 41149122001     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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