BMC Evolutionary Biology

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On the nature of fur evolution: A phylogenetic approach in Actinobacteria

Catarina L Santos1,2*, João Vieira1, Fernando Tavares1,2, David R Benson3, Louis S Tisa4, Alison M Berry5, Pedro Moradas-Ferreira1,6 and Philippe Normand7

Author Affiliations

1 IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal

2 Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Botânica, Rua do Campo Alegre 1191, 4150-181 Porto, Portugal

3 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06279, USA

4 Department of Microbiology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824, USA

5 Department of Plant Sciences, Mail Stop 1, PES Building, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

6 Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Lg. Prof. Abel Salazar, 4099-003 Porto, Portugal

7 UMR 5557 CNRS Ecologie Microbienne, IFR41 Bio-Environnement et Santé, Université Lyon 1, 43 Bd du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:185 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-185

Published: 25 June 2008

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Multiple alignment of the studied Fur homologues + Streptomyces reticuli FurS.

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Multiple alignment of the studied Fur homologues.

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Maximum-Likelihod tree of the Fur homologues.

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Multiple alignment of the Fur homologues (global approach).

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Neighbour-Joining tree of the Fur homologues (global approach).

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Multiple alignment of the 16S sequences.

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