Phylogenetic artifacts can be caused by leucine, serine, and arginine codon usage heterogeneity: Dinoflagellate plastid origins as a case study

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 582-593

  Inagaki, Yuji ^a   Simpson, Alastair G B ^b   Dacks, Joel B ^a,c   Roger, Andrew J ^a  

^a NAGAHAMA INSTITUTE OF BIO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromalveolate hypothesis; Codon usage bias; Concatenated gene phylogeny; Dinoflagellates; Long branch attraction; Model misspecification; Phylogenetic artifact; Plastid evolution

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; LEUCINE; PROTOZOAL DNA; SERINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; ARTIFACTS; CODON; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; LEUCINE; PHYLOGENY; SERINE;

DINOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PROTOZOA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 4644327551     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490468756     Document Type: Article

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