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University of Massachusetts Amherst

2011

Amoebozoa

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Phylogenics And Patterns Of Molecular Evolution In Amoebozoa, Daniel J.G. Lahr Sep 2011

Phylogenics And Patterns Of Molecular Evolution In Amoebozoa, Daniel J.G. Lahr

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My dissertation explores several aspects of the relationship between morphological and molecular evolution in amoeboid lineages:

Chapter 1 - General Introduction: This chapter provides an overview of the most pressing issues in Amoebozoa phylogeny that are dealt with in the remainder of the thesis

Chapter 2 - Reducing the impact of PCR-mediated recombination in molecular evolution and environmental studies using a new generation high fidelity DNA polymerase: This chapter addresses the methodological difficulty in the study of large gene families, the generation of artifactual sequences by recombination during PCR.

Chapter 3 - Evolution of the actin gene family in testate …