Sentences with phrase «largest animal phylum»

It had been assumed that such lateral gene transfers were uncommon, but their existence in arthropods, the largest animal phylum, suggests that such transfers may be a significant evolutionary mechanism.

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Insects are invertebrate animals of the Class Insecta, the largest and (on land) most widely - distributed taxon within the Phylum Arthropoda.

And, remarkably, this so - called «convergent» evolution happened at least eight times across three different phyla, or animal groups, supporting the belief that necessity played a larger role than chance in developing this trait.