Symbiosis between hydra and chlorella: Molecular phylogenetic analysis and experimental study provide insight into its origin and evolution

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 906-914

  Kawaida, Hitomi ^a   Ohba, Kohki ^a   Koutake, Yuhki ^a   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^b   Tachida, Hidenori ^a   Kobayakawa, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

18srRNA; Chlorella; Evolution; Hydra; MtDNA; RbcL; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLORELLA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HYDRA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHLORELLA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; HYDRA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLOROPHYTA; HYDRA;

EID: 84873146140     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.018     Document Type: Article

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