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Investigating Deep Phylogenetic Relationships among Cyanobacteria and Plastids by Small Subunit rRNA Sequence Analysis 1
Author(s) -
TURNER SEÁN,
PRYER KATHLEEN M.,
MIAO VIVIAN P. W.,
PALMER JEFFREY D.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of eukaryotic microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.067
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1550-7408
pISSN - 1066-5234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1999.tb04612.x
Subject(s) - biology , phylogenetic tree , monophyly , plastid , phylogenetics , evolutionary biology , tree (set theory) , cyanobacteria , taxon , ribosomal rna , sequence (biology) , clade , botany , genetics , gene , chloroplast , mathematical analysis , mathematics , bacteria
Small subunit rRNA sequence data were generated for 27 strains of cyanobacteria and incorporated into a phylogenetic analysis of 1,377 aligned sequence positions from a diverse sampling of 53 cyanobacteria and 10 photosynthetic plastids. Tree inference was carried out using a maximum likelihood method with correction for site‐to‐site variation in evolutionary rate. Confidence in the inferred phylogenetic relationships was determined by construction of a majority‐rule consensus tree based on alternative topologies not considered to be statistically significantly different from the optimal tree. The results are in agreement with earlier studies in the assignment of individual taxa to specific sequence groups. Several relationships not previously noted among sequence groups are indicated, whereas other relationships previously supported are contradicted. All plastids cluster as a strongly supported monophyletic group arising near the root of the cyanobacterial line of descent.

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