Six Subgroups and Extensive Recent Duplications Characterize the Evolution of the Eukaryotic Tubulin Protein Family

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The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

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New molecular markers for fungal phylogenetics: Two genes for species-level systematics in the Sordariomycetes (Ascomycota)

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Assessing Whether Alpha-Tubulin Sequences Are Suitable for Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Ciliophora with Insights into Its Evolution in Euplotids

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ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

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Predicting mutually exclusive spliced exons based on exon length, splice site and reading frame conservation, and exon sequence homology

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A holistic phylogeny of the coronin gene family reveals an ancient origin of the tandem-coronin, defines a new subfamily, and predicts protein function

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Bacterial Tubulin Distinct Loop Sequences and Primitive Assembly Properties Support Its Origin from a Eukaryotic Tubulin Ancestor

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The Determinants That Govern Microtubule Assembly from the Atomic Structure of GTP-Tubulin

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Microtubules in Bacteria: Ancient Tubulins Build a Five-Protofilament Homolog of the Eukaryotic Cytoskeleton

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Phylogeny of the ascomycetous yeasts and the renaming of Pichia anomala to Wickerhamomyces anomalus

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Tubulin evolution in insects: gene duplication and subfunctionalization provide specialized isoforms in a functionally constrained gene family

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2R or not 2R is not the question anymore

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FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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Filament structure of bacterial tubulin homologue TubZ

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Broadly Sampled Multigene Analyses Yield a Well-Resolved Eukaryotic Tree of Life

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Reconstructing the phylogeny of 21 completely sequenced arthropod species based on their motor proteins

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Chromalveolates and the Evolution of Plastids by Secondary Endosymbiosis

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Phylogeny of the "Forgotten" Cellular Slime Mold, Fonticula alba, Reveals a Key Evolutionary Branch within Opisthokonta

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Phylogenetic positions of Glaucophyta, green plants (Archaeplastida) and Haptophyta (Chromalveolata) as deduced from slowly evolving nuclear genes

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BtubA-BtubB Heterodimer Is an Essential Intermediate in Protofilament Assembly

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Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"

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The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

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A whole-genome assembly of the domestic cow, Bos taurus

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Tubulin and its prokaryotic homologue FtsZ: a structural and functional comparison

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