Sentences with phrase «similar ecological niche»

For this general overview, large collections of SAGs will be analysed at the 18S rDNA level to obtain a biodiversity inventory, and to identify a set of related uncultured lineages potentially occupying a similar ecological niche (i.e. bacterivory) as ascertained by their phylogenetic placement.

There are many examples of convergent evolution where 2 very different animals with very different DNA look and behave very similarly because they are in similar ecological niches.

Tegus are a New World group that roughly inhabits similar ecological niches to Old World monitors.

Not exact matches

Second, going around the coast of South America, Darwin observed that the same ecological niche was occupied by similar but clearly different species.

In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches.

These two host worms were closely related and shared similar morphology and ecological niche, which might allow Inquicus fellatus to infest one of them initially and then also colonise the other.

This latest study is one of only a few well - documented examples of what evolutionary biologists call «character displacement,» in which similar species competing with each other evolve differences to take advantage of different ecological niches.

Ecological drift, frequency - dependence and interference competition shape coexistence of species with similar niches