Expanding character sampling for ciliate phylogenetic inference using mitochondrial SSU-rDNA as a molecular marker

Protist

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-99

  Dunthorn, Micah ^a   Foissner, Wilhelm ^b   Katz, Laura A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciliophora; Colpodea; Mitochondrial SSU rDNA; Nuclear SSU rDNA; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CILIOPHORA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY;

CILIOPHORA; COLPODA; COLPODEA; CYRTOLOPHOSIDIDA; SOROGENIDA;

EID: 78650415756     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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