phylogenetic
Americanadjective
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A more detailed breakdown of the results shows that more than half of the vegetation samples examined had a high functional diversity but only a low phylogenetic diversity.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024
By integrating phylogenetic data and comparative analyses, the research team discovered that nectaries originated concurrently in ferns and angiosperms, but ferns experienced a significant lag in diversification compared to their flowering plant counterparts.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
Even sophisticated methods of tracing family trees, or phylogenetic analysis, can be misled by a single “rogue” piece of DNA, he notes.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 31, 2024
Future studies will examine more basal families as well as families whose monophyly is dubious, including more genera into the analysis, to advance the phylogenetic understanding of Dermaptera and, ultimately of Polyneoptera and Insecta.
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024
Identifiable hylid remains are known from the Miocene to the Recent, but these fossils are mostly fragmentary and provide little useful information regarding the phylogenetic relationships of living genera.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.
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