Eumycetozoa = Amoebozoa?: SSUrDNA phylogeny of protosteloid slime molds and its significance for the amoebozoan supergroup

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Shadwick, Lora L ^a   Spiegel, Frederick W ^a   Shadwick, John D L ^a   Brown, Matthew W ^a   Silberman, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

AMOEBA; AMOEBOZOAN; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL LINEAGE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; FRUITING BODY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MONOPHYLY; MOULD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTOSTELOID; PROTOSTELOID SLIME MOLD; RNA ANALYSIS; SARCODINA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MYCETOZOA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMOEBOZOA; DICTYOSTELIIDA; EUKARYOTA; MYCETOZOA; MYXOGASTRIA; PROTOSTELIDA;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MYCETOZOA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 69449103218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006754     Document Type: Article

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