Molecular Phylogeny of Unikonts: New Insights into the Position of Apusomonads and Ancyromonads and the Internal Relationships of Opisthokonts

Protist

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-12

  Paps, Jordi ^a   Medina Chacón, Luis A ^a   Marshall, Wyth ^b   Suga, Hiroshi ^a,c   Ruiz Trillo, Iñaki ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b BC Centre for Aquatic Health   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cilia; Corallochytrea; Eukaryotic phylogeny; Filasterea; Opisthokonts; Unikonta.

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EUKARYOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMOEBOZOA; ANCYROMONADIDAE; ANIMALIA; APUSOMONADIDAE; APUSOZOA; BOTRYTIS; CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; CODONOSIGA; CORALLOCHYTRIUM LIMACISPORUM; EUKARYOTA; FONTICULA; FUNGI; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; HOLOZOA (GROUP); ICHTHYOSPOREA; METAZOA; NUCLEARIIDAE; UNIKONTA;

EID: 84872267078     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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