Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Tetrahymena inferred from the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 and the small subunit ribosomal RNA genes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 979-987

  Chantangsi, Chitchai ^a   Lynn, Denis H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ciliate; Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1; Phylogeny; Small subunit rRNA; Tetrahymena

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRAHYMENA;

CILIOPHORA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 56549109620     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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