Nearly complete rRNA genes from 371 Animalia: Updated structure-based alignment and detailed phylogenetic analysis

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 603-617

  Mallatt, Jon ^a   Craig, Catherine Waggoner ^a   Yoder, Matthew J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Animalia; LSU rRNA; PHASE program; Secondary structure substitution models; SSU (18S) rRNA

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHORDATA; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHORDATA; GENES, RRNA; INVERTEBRATES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

ACOELA; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BILATERIA; BRANCHIURA (CRUSTACEA); BRYOZOA; CARNIVORA; CEPHALOPODA; CETARTIODACTYLA; CHORDATA; CNIDARIA; ECDYSOZOA; GYMNOLAEMATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LAMA (MAMMAL); LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MALACOSTRACA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; MOLLUSCA; MYSTACOCARIDA; MYXOZOA; OSTRACODA; PENTASTOMIDA; PHYLACTOLAEMATA; PLATYHELMINTHES; ROTIFERA; STENOLAEMATA; THECOSTRACA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 84863108240     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.05.016     Document Type: Article

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