On the value of Elongation factor-1α for reconstructing pterygote insect phylogeny

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 651-656

  Simon, Sabrina ^a   Schierwater, Bernd ^a,b   Hadrys, Heike ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EF 1 introns; Elongation factor 1 ; Homologous copies; Molecular systematics; Pterygota

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INSECT; INTRON; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VARIATION; INSECTS; INTRONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HEXAPODA; NEOPTERA; PALAEOPTERA;

EID: 73349142982     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.09.029     Document Type: Article

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