Analysis of ribosomal RNA genes suggests that trypanosomes are monophyletic

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 521-527

  Lukeš, Julius ^a,b   Jirků, Milan ^a,b   Doležel, David ^b   Kral'ová, Ivica ^a,d   Hollar, Laura ^c   Maslov, Dmitri A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Crithidia oncopelti; Dimastigella; Homoplasy; Kinetoplastida; Monophyly; Phylogenetic tree; Rhynchobodo; rRNA; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; FLAGELLATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRYPANOSOMATINA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 8244223880     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006176     Document Type: Article

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