Sentences with phrase «called phylogenetic»

Uppsala researchers Patric Jern, Alexander Hayward, Göran Sperber, and Jonas Blomberg used the computer program RetroTector and detailed sequence comparisons in so - called phylogenetic studies to map the retrovirus part of the pig genome.

So - called phylogenetic networks a more useful to depict the genetic mix - up that we have found», comments evolutionary biologist Prof. Dr. Axel Janke, BiK - F, leader of the research team.

DNA sequencing of the fungi in the samples identified fragments of DNA, called phylogenetic markers, which can be counted and used to distinguish one type of fungus from another.

Michael Metzker, at the time a graduate student in the laboratory of Richard Gibbs at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, compared the gene sequences of the strains to see how closely related they were, using a technique called phylogenetic analysis.

Mammal specialists are switching over to what's called a phylogenetic concept, Zachos says.

But this new theory, called phylogenetic systematics, proposed that the classification of organisms should reflect their actual evolutionary history.

Not exact matches

In phylogenetics, organisms are grouped by ancestry; a reptile in this system includes any animal descended from the original group called reptiles.

The method, called computational Bayesian phylogenetics, forces researchers to explicitly quantify the uncertainty in the models, says linguist Claire Bowern of Yale University, a pioneer of the approach and co-author of the new study.

Langer calls that approach to phylogenetic analyses «old - fashioned.»

Many of the horse bones and teeth Olsen excavated at two Botai sites in Kazakhstan, called Botai and Krasnyi Yar, were used in the phylogenetic analysis.

A phylogenetic analysis of the calls of 92 mammalian species showed that those frequency modulations have evolved independently in six mammalian orders, including the Carnivora, Primates, Artiodactyla, Perissondactyla, Rodentia, and Chiroptera.

Phylogenetic studies place them in a supergroup called the opisthokonts, which also include the fungi and a few small parasitic protists.

In this project, I applied NASP for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) identification and characterization, and used FigTree and PHYLOBar for phylogenetic analysis and visualization.The NASP method differs from other published SNP pipelines in terms of supported short - read aligners and SNP callers, the ability to call both monomorphic and polymorphic sites, and the ability to integrate the results from multiple SNP callers and identify the consensus set of SNPs that define the population structure.

This process is called the extant phylogenetic bracket (EPB).

Carnegie researchers are developing new scientific approaches that integrate phylogenetic, chemical and spectral remote sensing perspectives - called Spectranomics - to map canopy function and biological diversity throughout tropical forests of the world.