Sentences with phrase «major clades»
"Major clades" refers to large groups or branches in the evolutionary tree. It represents the significant divisions or categories in the classification of species based on their genetic relationship and common ancestry. Full definition
Relationships of Caryophyllales to other major clades of eudicots remain unclear.
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This reveals a greater ecological diversity in an early mammaliaform clade at a more fundamental taxonomic level not only between major clades as previously thought.
The study also revealed that the co-inheritance among major clades of T. gondii of large haploblocks enriched in clustered SPD genes shapes the population structure of this parasite and might determine host range, transmission and pathogenicity.
Recently, our team released an annotated genome assembly of C. krusei via NCBI Genbank, and we are currently working with the CDC to assemble genomes and predict genes for C. auris isolates from the other major clades and other closely related species; we plan to share these data in the coming weeks.
(A) Unrooted phylogenetic tree of EBOV samples; each major clade corresponds to a distinct outbreak (scale bar = nucleotide substitutions per site).
The first unambiguous fossil from the botfly family adds to the few known fossils of a major clade of flies (Calyptratae), shedding light on their rapid radiation during the Cenozoic Era, according to a study published August 23, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Pierfilippo Cerrito from Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, and colleagues.
Up until about a decade ago, all archaea were assigned to one of two major clades: the Crenarchaeota, which mostly comprise extreme thermophiles, or the Euryarchaeota, which mainly included methanogens and halophiles.
The major clades of RABV are indicated in boxes.
The other lineage (known as Euphyllophyta) includes two major clades: the spermatophytes or seed plants (including more than 250,000 species of angiosperms [flowering plants], conifers, cycads, gnetophytes, and the Gingko) and the monilophytes or ferns (sensu lato, including the horsetails, whisk ferns, and eusporangiate and leptosporangiate ferns, with most of the roughly 12,000 monilophyte species being leptosporangiate ferns).
They have alternatively been considered to be close relatives of rosids, asterids, or Santalales and are best regarded at this time simply as one of the major clades of core eudicots (e.g., D. Soltis et al. 2000).