Sentences with phrase «phylogenetic origin»

In this manuscript, the authors use SINE insertions to study the phylogenetic origin of whales.

In evolutionary biology, convergence describes the development of similar constructional principles without the organisms having a common phylogenetic origin.

The phylogenetic mosaic of chlamydial genes, including a large number of genes with phylogenetic origins from eukaryotes, implies a complex evolution for adaptation to obligate intracellular parasitism.

Not exact matches

Our current concept of the origin of the eukaryotic cell is in flux, however, and an evolutionary sequence that appears simple when conceptualized on a phylogenetic tree diagram may be far more complex and interesting in reality.

The phylogenetic position of the cephalochordate amphioxus, together with its relatively simple and evolutionarily conserved morphology and genome structure, has led to its use as a model for studies of animal evolution, with a special focus on the origin of deuterostomes, chordates, and vertebrates.

This biases our results towards assuming deeper origins of genes than may be the case (if, for example, some phylogenetic incongruence arises from horizontal gene transfer), but we consider this property desirable as it makes our analyses conservative.

The scale and scope of these data are enabling genotype - phenotype association studies to identify genetic determinants of pathogen virulence and drug / insecticide resistance, and phylogenetic studies to track the origin and spread of disease outbreaks.

Myxozoa, Polypodium, and the origin of the Bilateria: The phylogenetic position of «Endocnidozoa» in light of the rediscovery of Buddenbrockia.

S. L. Page and Morris Goodman, «Catarrhine phylogeny: Noncoding DNA evidence for a diphyletic origin of the mangabeys and for a human - chimpanzee clade,» Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18 (1): 14 - 25 (January 2001).