Ml. Goddemeier et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF A MAIZE RIBOSOMAL P2 PROTEIN CDNA AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE P1 P2 FAMILY OF RIBOSOMAL-PROTEINS/, Plant molecular biology, 30(3), 1996, pp. 655-658
The nucleotide sequence of a full-length ribosomal P2 protein cDNA fro
m maize was determined and used for a sequence comparison with the P2
and P1 proteins from other organisms. The integration of these data in
to a phylogenetic tree shows that the P proteins separated into the su
bspecies P1 and P2 before the eukaryotic kingdoms including plants dev
eloped from their ancestor.