Ribosomal protein genes of holometabolan insects reject the Halteria, instead revealing a close affinity of Strepsiptera with Coleoptera

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 846-859

  Longhorn, Stuart J ^a,b   Pohl, Hans W ^c   Vogler, Alfried P ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Composition; ESTs; Holometabola; Long branch attraction; Ribosomal proteins; Stemminess RCV; Strepsiptera; Topological congruence

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, INSECT; INSECTS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; ENDOPTERYGOTA; HALTERIA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; MECOPTERA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); STREPSIPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 77953129754     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.024     Document Type: Article

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