The choanoflagellates: Heterotrophic nanoflagellates and sister group of the metazoa

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  King, Nicole ^a,b   Young, Susan L ^a   Abedin, Monika ^a   Carr, Martin ^c   Leadbeater, Barry S C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAGELLATE; GENOMICS; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOSIGA BREVICOLLIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; METAZOA;

EID: 65749086654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo116     Document Type: Article

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