Investigating Deep Phylogenetic Relationships among Cyanobacteria and Plastids by Small Subunit rRNA Sequence Analysis1

作者：Seán Turner, Kathleen M. Pryer, Vivian Miao, Jeffrey D. Palmer · 发表于：Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology · 年份：1999 · DOI：10.1111/j.1550-7408.1999.tb04612.x · 被引用次数：1615 · 研究领域：Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies、Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology、Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

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.