Evaluation of the authenticity of a highly novel environmental sequence from boreal forest soil using ribosomal RNA secondary structure modeling

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 234-245

  Glass, Daniel J ^a   Takebayashi, Naoki ^a   Olson, Link E ^b   Taylor, D Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungi; Metagenomic DNA; Novel lineage; Pseudogene; RDNA; Ribosomal RNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 5.8S;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; BASE COMPOSITION; BAYES THEOREM; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; TREES;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84875054478     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.01.018     Document Type: Article

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