A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among α-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1643-1660

  Esser, Christian ^a   Ahmadinejad, Nahal ^a   Wiegand, Christian ^a   Rotte, Carmen ^a   Sebastiani, Federico ^a   Gelius Dietrich, Gabriel ^a   Henze, Katrin ^a   Kretschmann, Ernst ^b   Richly, Erik ^c   Leister, Dario ^c   Bryant, David ^d   Steel, Michael A ^e   Lockhart, Peter J ^f   Penny, David ^f   Martin, William ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^f MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Archaebacteria; Endosymbiosis; Eubacteria; Genome analysis; Mitochondria; Origin of eukaryotes

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DATABASE; RECLINOMONAS AMERICANA; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; YEAST;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MARCHANTIA; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RECLINOMONAS AMERICANA; RHODOSPIRILLUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; UNCULTURED ALPHA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 4143093598     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh160     Document Type: Article

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