New phylogenetic hypotheses for the core Chlorophyta based on chloroplast sequence data

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Fučíková, Karolina ^a   Leliaert, Frederik ^b,c   Cooper, Endymion D ^d   Škaloud, Pavel ^e   D'Hondt, Sofie ^b   De Clerck, Olivier ^b   Gurgel, Carlos F D ^f   Lewis, Louise A ^a   Lewis, Paul O ^a   Lopez Bautista, Juan M ^c   Delwiche, Charles F ^d   Verbruggen, Heroen ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chlorophyta; Chloroplast DNA; Fast site removal; Green algae; Molecular systematic; Multi gene phylogeny; Phylogenomics; Viridiplantae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957974776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00063     Document Type: Article

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