Whole-genome based Archaea phylogeny and taxonomy: A composition vector approach

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2323-2328

  Sun, Jian Dong ^a   Xu, Zhao ^a   Hao, Bai Lin ^a,b,c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA analysis; alignment free; Archaea; composition vector; CVTree; phylogeny; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 77955521875     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-3008-8     Document Type: Article

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