Sentences with phrase «common ancestor analysis»

A fallacious use of the closest common ancestor analysis is to identify the ancestor as a carrier of the defective gene.

It was stated, «A fallacious use of the closest common ancestor analysis is to identify the ancestor as a carrier of the defective gene.

Not exact matches

Their analysis, published in January in the Journal of Human Genetics, suggests that the mutation was passed on from a common ancestor who lived about 14,000 years ago.

This is the first ancient DNA to be obtained from Phoenician remains and the team's analysis shows that the man belonged to a rare European haplogroup — a genetic group with a common ancestor — that likely links his maternal ancestry to locations somewhere on the North Mediterranean coast, most probably on the Iberian Peninsula.

One researcher put the basic biological assumption of a single common ancestor to the test — and found that advanced genetic analysis and sophisticated statistics back up Darwin's age - old proposition

The molecular analysis confirms that all Laparocerus weevils have a common evolutionary ancestor (monophyly), but could not clarify whether that ancient founding species arrived from southern Europe or northwestern Africa.

The researchers use techniques of morphometric analysis and phylogenetic statistics to reconstruct the dental morphology of the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.

An analysis of DNA from 37 living orangutans, including two Tapanuli animals, indicated that Tapanuli and Sumatran orangutans diverged from a common ancestor around 3.4 million years ago.

One of the outputs of the evolutionary analysis of genomes is the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees that map out common ancestors, their descendants, and the relationships between the different species.

A new genetic analysis suggests that the common ancestor of modern mammals may not have been shrewlike in size, but more like a small monkey

Strausfeld's and Wolff's analysis revealed a ground pattern organization that is common to mushroom bodies in all of the investigated species, suggesting its inheritance from an ancient ancestor, possibly 600 million years in the past.

The comparative genomics analysis could «backtrack» the history of their genes, and showed that the two bacteria have diverged 13.9 million years ago from a common ancestor with a similar genome structure, and possibly a similar lifestyle.

If both Slavic languages and Celtic languages had a version of Jack and the Beanstalk (and the analysis revealed they might), for example, chances are the story can be traced back to the «last common ancestor.»

The analysis suggested the mutation arose from a common ancestor around 375 years ago.

Analyses of mitochondrial DNA show that the warbler species are closely related and are estimated to have had a common ancestor around 850,000 years ago.

Our analyses indicated that the ancient horses from Taymyr split from the common ancestors of domesticated and Przewalski's horses at least 127 — 159 kya (credible interval = 89 — 211 kya; SI Appendix, Table S20).

Relaxed clock analyses of divergence times with 14 fossil - calibrated nodes suggest that living Primates last shared a common ancestor 71 — 63 Ma, and that divergences within both Strepsirrhini and Haplorhini are entirely post-Cretaceous.

Folinsbee and Brooks» [95] PACT analysis of area cladograms for hominoids, proboscideans, and hyaenids provides additional support for the hypothesis that crown hominoids last shared a common ancestor in Asia, and that the ancestor of crown Hominidae re-entered Africa.

Results: Phylogenetic analysis of 77 K. pneumoniae (48 clinical and 29 non-clinical isolates) demonstrated that the two groups were intermixed throughout the tree and in some cases resided in the same clade, suggesting recent divergence from a common ancestor.

He describes the ancestor around 6 million years ago who was common to chimpanzees and humans, siting the three major sources of compelling scientific evidence for that common ancestors: DNA (which shows humans more closely related to chimps than gorillas are); DNA gene analysis; and morphological evidence from fossils.

Recent genetic analysis has revealed that the common ancestor of the modern housecat was Felis silvestris, a species of wildcat that first came into contact with humans around 9,000 years ago.