Sentences with phrase «major lineages»

This third major lineage originated somewhere in northwestern Asia, perhaps on the steppes of western Asia or in Eastern Europe.

They found two major lineages responsible for almost all modern horses: Arabian horses from the Arabian Peninsula and the now - extinct Turkoman horses from the Eurasian Steppe, the researchers report today in Current Biology.

Genome Evolution and Innovation across the Four Major Lineages of Cryptococcus gattii.

From those four students, three major lineages of yoga were born: Iyengar, Ashtanga and Viniyoga.

The researchers discovered that both major living lineages of birds (the common neognaths and the rarer paleognaths) differ from the major lineages of non-bird reptiles (crocodiles, turtles, and lizards) and from mammals in having a unique, median gene expression zone of two different facial development genes early in embryonic development.

Although the auditory systems of the four - legged animals have undergone many changes since, they have in common the middle ear with eardrum and ossicles, which emerged independently in the major lineages.

The evolutionary relationships among primates and their potential relatives, and among the major lineages within the Primate order have been debated intensively for many years.

Fast workers The analysis showed that hummingbirds fall into nine major lineages, which have diversified from each other in South America over the past 22 million years.

The intention is to sample two species from every major lineage of Fungi.

Such ancient core reproductive components should fulfill the following criteria: present in most, if not all, of the major lineages of animals undergoing sexual reproduction; originated around the time when gametogenesis likely evolved; demonstrated conservation at the sequence, expression and functional levels in species from diverse animal phyla.