Placing environmental next-generation sequencing amplicons from microbial eukaryotes into a phylogenetic context

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 993-1009

  Dunthorn, Micah ^a   Otto, Johannes ^a   Berger, Simon A ^b   Stamatakis, Alexandros ^b,c   Mahé, Frédéric ^a   Romac, Sarah ^d,e   De Vargas, Colomban ^d,e   Audic, Stéphane ^d,e   Stock, Alexandra ^a   Kauff, Frank ^a   Stoeck, Thorsten ^a   Edvardsen, Bente ^f   Massana, Ramon ^g   Not, Fabrice ^d   Simon, Nathalie ^d   Zingone, Adriana ^h  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^h STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ciliophora; Colpodea; Marine freshwater transitions; Phylogenetics; SSU rDNA

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ALGORITHM; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE SEQUENCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY;

CILIOPHORA; COLPODEA; MARINE-FRESHWATER TRANSITIONS; PHYLOGENETICS; SSU-RDNA;

BAYES THEOREM; CILIOPHORA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84897866461     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu055     Document Type: Article

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