Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 5, 90-96, Copyright © 1988 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
WC Wheeler and RL Honeycutt
Ribosomal RNAs have secondary structures that are maintained by internal
Watson-Crick pairing. Through analysis of chordate, arthropod, and plant 5S
ribosomal RNA sequences, we show that Darwinian selection operates on these
nucleotide sequences to maintain functionally important secondary
structure. Insect phylogenies based on nucleotide positions involved in
pairing and the production of secondary structure are incongruent with
those constructed on the basis of positions that are not. Furthermore,
phylogeny reconstruction using these nonpairing bases is concordant with
other, morphological data.
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Paired sequence difference in ribosomal RNAs: evolutionary and phylogenetic implications
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.
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