RRNA phylogenies

Nadler, S.A. (1992) Phylogeny of some ascaridoid nematodes, inferred from comparison of 18S and 28S rRNA sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution 9, 932-944. 

Lockyer, A.E., Olson, P.D. and Littlewood, D.T.J. (2003a) Utility of complete large and small subunit rRNA genes in resolving the phylogeny of the Neodermata (Platyhelminthes) implications and a review of the cercomer theory. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78, 1 55-1 71. 

Hancock, J.M. and Vogler, A.P. (2000) How slippage-derived sequences are incorporated into rRNA variable-region secondary structure implications for phylogeny reconstruction. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 14, 366-374. 

Mallatt, J. and Winchell, C.J. (2002) Testing the new animal phylogeny first use of combined large-subunit and small-subunit rRNA gene sequences to classify the protostomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19, 289-301. 

Qu, L.H., Hardman, J.P., Gill, N., Chappell, L., Nicoloso, L. and Bachellerie, M. (1 986) Phylogeny of helminths determined by rRNA sequence comparison. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 20, 93-99. 

Kumazaki, T Hori, H and Osawa, S. (1983) Phylogeny of Protozoa Deduced from 5S rRNA Sequences, Journal of Molecular Evolution, 19,411-419. 

At first, trees depicting a symbiotic origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts were sketchy, and were cobbled together from partial sequences of diverse molecules, 5S RNA, ferredoxin, cytochrome c, based on very few organisms (Schwartz and Dayhoff 1978). They were easily criticized (Demoulin 1979). The decisive evidence came from systematic investigations of bacterial phylogeny based on comparisons of the small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) pioneered by the group led by Carl Woese at the University of Illinois. 

Guadet J, Julian J, Eafay JF, Brygoo Y Phylogeny of some Fusarium species, as determined by large subunit rRNA sequence comparison. Mol Biol Evol 1989 6 227-242. 

Fleske, A., Wolterink, A., van Lis, R., Akkermans, A.D.L. (1998). Phylogeny of the main bacterial 16S rRNA sequences in Drentse a grassland soils. Appl. Environ. Microbiol, 64, 871-879. 

Recent advances in understanding the phylogeny of photosynthetic prokaryotes have been made by comparing oligonucleotides derived from 16S rRNA [1]. Results of these analyses have renewed general interest in the comparative biochemistry of photosynthetic bacteria, since it is now clear that they are closely related to many non-photosynthetic bacteria. Extensive phylogenetic analysis has indicated that the ancestry of most, if not all, eubacteria and even the ancestry of the cellular organelles of eukaryotes, the mitochondria and chloroplasts, lies deeply entrenched in the history of the photosynthetic bacteria. 

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