supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Project;Grant No.2013CB834100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11474068);the support of the State Key Laboratory of Applied Surface Physics and the Department of Physics,Fudan University,China
We report an important but long-overlooked manifestation of low-resolution power of 16S rRNA sequence analysis at the species level, namely, in 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic trees polyphyletic placements of closely-rela...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31071898,31111120437);the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,State Education Ministry of China;the Key Laboratory of Mariculture(KLM),Ministry of Education,Ocean University of China,the Research Group Project(No.RGP-VPP-083);the King Saud University Deanship of Scientific Research
In this paper, we explore possible conflict between morphological and molecular interpretations of phylogenetic relationships within the well-known peritrichous genus Zoothamnium. On the basis of morphological evidenc...