title: Molecular phylogeny of Stentor (Ciliophora: Heterotrichea) based on small subunit ribosomal RNA sequences.
abstract: To determine the phylogenetic position of Stentor within the Class Heterotrichea, the complete small subunit rRNA genes of three Stentor species, namely Stentor polymorphus, Stentor coeruleus, and Stentor roeseli, were sequenced and used to construct phylogenetic trees using the maximum parsimony, neighbor joining, and Bayesian analysis. With all phylogenetic methods, the genus Stentor was monophyletic, with S. roeseli branching basally.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Taxonomy and Ecology of Protozoa, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
authors.forename: Ying-Chun
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Yu-He
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Fei-Yun
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Wei-Song
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Feng
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016798:Ciliophora / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D020459:Genes, rRNA; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016053:RNA, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics*; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D016053:RNA, Protozoan; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal