Sentences with phrase «phylogenetic diversity»
"Phylogenetic diversity" refers to the variety and evolutionary relationships between different species or groups of organisms. It focuses on understanding how species are related to each other through their common ancestors and how their characteristics have changed over time. Essentially, it explores the diversity and evolutionary history of life on Earth. Full definition
John Dickie, head of botanical information at the Millennium Seed Bank, added: «For a number of years we have been keen to know just how much phylogenetic diversity, the total outcome of millions of years of seed plant evolution, we have in the vault.
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Thanks to this study, we not only have a sound estimate of the effectiveness of our current collecting strategy in capturing legume phylogenetic diversity; but also the opportunity to efficiently improve our coverage and extend the method to other families.»
We expect that this genomic level study will contribute to linking functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity within the dominant bacterial grazers in the oceans.
Microbial eukariotes cover the widest phylogenetic diversity in the eukaryotic tree of life and are essential components of all Earth's ecosystems.
The investigators examined 181 bacterial genomes taken from the female urinary microbiome, which Dr. Putonti said were representative of that microbiome's phylogenetic diversity.
Some view this «phylogenetic diversity» as the third leg of the stool with functional and species diversity.
PNNL will target new data acquisition to specific taxa that are currently underrepresented, hoping to double the phylogenetic diversity of the dataset.