Molecular phylogeny of choanoflagellates, the sister group to Metazoa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 16641-16646

  Carr, M ^a   Leadbeater, B S C ^b   Hassan, R ^b,c   Nelson, M ^a   Baldauf, S L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animals; Evolution; Holozoa; Morphology; Protists

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; METAZOON; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MASTIGOPHORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON;

ANIMALIA; CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; HOLOZOA (GROUP); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); METAZOA; PROTISTA;

EID: 55949117660     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801667105     Document Type: Article

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