Sentences with phrase «as phylogenetic studies»

As phylogenetic studies advance to include progressively more sequence data, new techniques are being developed to obtain such data sets.

Not exact matches

Treating each tale as a species that mutates over time, they've borrowed techniques from phylogenetics (the study of evolutionary relationships between living organisms) to map stories onto the tree of Indo - European languages.

Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta report in the online journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases that they used phylogenetics — the study of the evolutionary link between organisms — to study 26 geographically scattered strains of a family of bacteria known as Treponemes, which are behind the sexually transmitted disease syphilis as well as related nonvenereal infections such as yaws.

Kearney has devoted her academic and professional work to the study of biodiversity, evolutionary biology and evolutionary history of organisms, a field known as phylogenetics.

The study, published as the cover article in BioMed Central's Avian Research, led by the Earlham Institute and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, explores the phylogenetic relationship between two forms of Harriers (Circus cyaneus); the Eurasian Hen Harrier (C. c. cyan ecus) and the American Northern Harrier (C. c. hudsonius) to distinguish their ancestry and evolution.

Dr. Carolyn Wessinger, who recently published «Multiplexed shotgun genotyping resolves species relationships within the North American genus Penstemon» in the American Journal of Botany, said that as an evolutionary geneticist, «I never thought I would become involved in a phylogenetic study.»

Using this approach, we performed a systematic phylogenetic and protein domain architecture - based study, encompassing the entire proteomes of all human Herpesviridae, as well as of select non-human herpesviruses, to define Strict Ortholog Groups (SOGs).

Phylogenetic relationships in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are largely confirmatory of recent studies on higher - level relationships among primates [3], [12], [15], [21], [22], as well as relationships within Lorisiformes [3], [12], [15],, Lemuriformes [3], [7], [8], [11], [12], [15], [25]--[38], Tarsiiformes [39], [40], Catarrhini [3], [12], [15], [41]--[50], and Platyrrhini [3], [12], [15], [51]--[62].

The phylogenetic position of the cephalochordate amphioxus, together with its relatively simple and evolutionarily conserved morphology and genome structure, has led to its use as a model for studies of animal evolution, with a special focus on the origin of deuterostomes, chordates, and vertebrates.