Assessing whether alpha-tubulin sequences are suitable for phylogenetic reconstruction of ciliophora with insights into its evolution in euplotids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Yi, Zhenzhen ^a,b   Katz, Laura A ^c   Song, Weibo ^a,b  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ALPHA TUBULIN GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLADISTICS; DISCOCEPHALIDA; EUPLOTIDA; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; URONYCHIIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES; GENETIC VARIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, EUKARYOTIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBULIN;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTIDA; EUPLOTIDAE; URONYCHIIDAE;

EID: 84863702615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040635     Document Type: Article

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