Sentences with phrase «across phylogeny»

He is interested in whether there may be a unifying principle for the operation of biological networks, one that cuts across phylogeny and type of network, that could revolutionize the natural sciences.

While one analysis pointed to a tricellular ancestry, another analysis — which allowed evolutionary rates of the traits to vary across a phylogeny — found more uncertainty at the base, with a tricellular ancestor only slightly more likely than a bicellular ancestor.

Not exact matches

Several MGEs showed variable distribution across the CC22 phylogeny, including two antimicrobial resistance plasmids (pWBG751 - like and SAP078A - like, carrying erythromycin and heavy metal resistance genes, respectively), a pathogenicity island carrying the enterotoxin C gene and two phage types Sa1int and Sa6int.

Dr. Beaulieu is developing a new set of ancestral state reconstruction methods that make more realistic assumptions about how characters evolve across very large phylogenies.