Sentences with phrase «member of the clade»

It further shows that some docodontans had a diet with a substantial herbivorous component, distinctive from the faunivorous diets previously reported in other members of this clade.

Applying these strictures to modern animals is fairly straightforward, since these two characteristics are restricted only to members of the clade Ruminantia, which is the subgroup of even - toed hoofed mammals that includes the cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, deer, pronghorn, mouse deer, giraffe (Zivotofsky 2000) and okapi (a clade is a taxonomic group whose members share a common ancestry; in this case it does not have a formal associated Linnaean level, such as family or order).

It is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia and the order Carnivora, as well as the largest marine mammal that is not a cetacean.

Not exact matches

In fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

This report of secondaries in a larger - bodied, derived, and clearly flightless member of a nonavian theropod clade represented by feathered relatives is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the evolution of feathers.

Pea aphids can also host another poorly understood kind of bacteria (members of the gamma proteobacteria clade) that they get from their mothers.

Such deposits possess clear taphonomic biases toward small - bodied animals, limiting our knowledge regarding feather presence in larger members of feathered clades.

Conifers are the predominant members of the 300 million year old Gymnosperm clade.

Members of the «bristle clade» of grasses (Doust and Kellogg, 2002), including the model grass Setaria viridis and cultivated millet species (Huang et al., 2016), produce sterile, modified branches in their inflorescences called bristles.

While this view has been changing for some time, a revolution in our thinking came with the discovery of Lokiarchaeum («Loki») and other members of the «Asgard» clade of archaea through metagenomic sampling of ocean sediments in 2015.

bilaterians: A clade of animals whode members share: bilateral symmetry, are triploblastic (three tissue layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm), and with HOX genes in one or more clusters with the genes within a cluster arranged in the same order as the body parts they affect.

A Member of the Roseobacter Clade, Octadecabacter sp., is the Dominant Symbiont in the Brittle Star Amphipholis squamata.

This find raises another question: is this foot from a member of the hominin clade or does it belong to an older, more ape like lineage?

However, our timetree dates for Platyrrhini leave open the possibility that these fossil taxa are members of the crown clade.

Consistent with being the most ancient member of the DAZ family, the Boule clade is much more widespread and divergent, including members of the major phyla of protostomes and deuterostomes, while all DAZ / DAZL homologs are clustered together in one branch.

Members of Theropoda, the only clade of predominantly predatory dinosaurs, were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure that allowed them to easily tear through the flesh and bone of other dinosaurs, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Among the most abundant bacteria is this community was a member of the OPB56 clade, an enigmatic, deep - branching lineage in the Chlorobi phylum.

Members of Theropoda, the only clade of predominantly predatory dinosaurs, were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure...

From Wikipedia: «A nudibranch / ˈnjuːdɨbræŋk / is a member of what is now a taxonomic clade, and what was previously a suborder, of soft - bodied, marine gastropod mollusks which shed their shell after their larval stage.

Even more surprising, the age of the modern polar bear crown group (the clade containing the last common ancestor of all extant members) is estimated to be less than 45 ky, slightly older than the age of the ABC bears (Fig. 3A), a date that is also found with the expanded dataset of control - region sequence fragments (Fig.