A Unique Box in 28S rRNA Is Shared by the Enigmatic Insect Order Zoraptera and Dictyoptera

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yanhui ^a   Engel, Michael S ^b,c   Rafael, Jose A ^d   Dang, Kai ^a   Wu, Haoyang ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Xie, Qiang ^a   Bu, Wenjun ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA 28S;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; DICTYOPTERA; DNA SEQUENCE; EARWIG; EMBIOPTERA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRYLLOBLATTODEA; HOLOMETABOLA; LOUSE; MANTOPHASMATODEA; MEGALOPTERA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEUROPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASMATODEA; PLECOPTERA; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PSOCOPTERA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNAPOMORPHY; THYSANOPTERA; ZORAPTERA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; INSECTS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DERMAPTERA; DICTYOPTERA; ENDOPTERYGOTA; GRYLLOBLATTODEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MANTOPHASMATODEA; PARANEOPTERA; PHASMATODEA; PLECOPTERA; ZORAPTERA;

EID: 84871865717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053679     Document Type: Article

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