Increasing taxon sampling using both unidentified environmental sequences and identified cultures improves phylogenetic inference in the Prorodontida (Ciliophora, Prostomatea)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 937-941

  Yi, Zhenzhen ^a,b,c   Dunthorn, Micah ^a   Song, Weibo ^b   Stoeck, Thorsten ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ciliophora; Environmental sequences; Phylogeny; Prorodontida; Taxon sampling

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

CILIOPHORA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY;

CILIOPHORA; COLEPIDAE; EUKARYOTA; PRORODONTIDA; PROSTOMATEA;

EID: 78049386783     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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