Sentences with phrase «diverse phylum»

Mollusks, we learn, make up an enormously diverse phylum of organisms — an estimated 85,000 known species, with thousands more waiting in the ocean and in museum collections to be described.

Not exact matches

Genome sequencing confirms that myxozoans, a diverse group of microscopic parasites that infect invertebrate and vertebrate hosts, are actually are «highly reduced» cnidarians — the phylum that includes jellyfish, corals and sea anemones.

For example, large - scale taxonomic DNA sequence comparisons have established more rigorous relationship trees and taxonomic distances for the large and diverse class Aves (birds) and the phylum Arthropoda.