Untangling the early diversification of eukaryotes: A phylogenomic study of the evolutionary origins of centrohelida, haptophyta and cryptista

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1823, 2016, Pages

  Burki, Fabien ^a   Kaplan, Maia ^a   Tikhonenkov, Denis V ^a,b   Zlatogursky, Vasily ^c   Minh, Bui Quang ^d   Radaykina, Liudmila V ^b   Smirnov, Alexey ^c   Mylnikov, Alexander P ^b   Keeling, Patrick J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PAPANIN INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF INLAND WATERS   (Russian Federation)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centrohelids; Eukaryotes; Phylogenomics; Plastid evolution; Tree of life

Indexed keywords

ALGA; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASTID; PROTIST; TOPOLOGY;

ARCHAEPLASTIDA; CENTROHELIOZOA; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; HELIOZOA;

CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84955615557     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2802     Document Type: Article

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