Rooting the ribosomal tree of life

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1792-1801

  Fournier, Gregory P ^a   Gogarten, J Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

ancestral reconstruction; genetic code; ribosome; tree of life

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMULATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77954993696     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq057     Document Type: Article

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