ITS2 Database IV: Interactive taxon sampling for internal transcribed spacer 2 based phylogenies

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 585-588

  Koetschan, Christian ^a   Hackl, Thomas ^a   Müller, Tobias ^a   Wolf, Matthias ^a   Förster, Frank ^a   Schultz, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Internal transcribed spacer 2; Quality control; Sequence structure BLAST; Taxon sampling; Tree reconstruction

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84859841345     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.01.026     Document Type: Article

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