When Naked Became Armored: An Eight-Gene Phylogeny Reveals Monophyletic Origin of Theca in Dinoflagellates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Orr, Russell J S ^a   Murray, Shauna A ^b,c   Stüken, Anke ^a   Rhodes, Lesley ^d   Jakobsen, Kjetill S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDRIUM; ALGAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOFLAGELLATE; DINOFLAGELLATE THECAL PLATES; DINOPHYSIALES; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GONYAULACALES; GYMNODINIUM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLUM; PLANT STRUCTURES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROROCENTRALES; PYRODINIUM; SAMPLE SIZE; SUESSIALES; SXTA GENE; SYNDINIALES; TAXON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DINOFLAGELLIDA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SAXITOXIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALEXANDRIUM; ALVEOLATA; DINOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYSIALES; EUKARYOTA; GONYAULACALES; GYMNODINIUM; PROROCENTRALES; PYRODINIUM; SUESSIALES; SYNDINIALES;

EID: 84869763820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050004     Document Type: Article

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