Sentences with phrase «single genus»
The phrase "single genus" refers to a group of organisms that belong to the same biological category. In simple terms, it means different species that are closely related and share common characteristics. Full definition
At 2.5 yrs we had an opportunity to participate in the American Gut project which showed her gut was 80 % proteobacteria, and 65 % of her entire gut was a single genus: Stenotrophomonas.
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The closest relatives of the genus are also confined to the Australasian region with the exception of a single genus living in South America.
Thus, a single genus of crinoid is known from the early Triassic, and is ancestral to all «deep water» extant articulate crinoids.
Due to the sex - related disparities in pharmacokinetics and bioavailability results reported by different authors (Soldin, Chung, & Mattison, 2011; Soldin & Mattison, 2009), the choice of a single genus was chosen to avoid a high dispersion in the data, and the availability of healthy young adult female volunteers for the study.
Jojoba, or Simmondsia chinensis, is the only species within the Simmondsia genus, which is the single genus of the Simmondsiaceae family (formerly Buxaceae).
Many commonly enjoyed foods in this plant family come from a single genus / species of plant called Brassica oleracea.
A new paper to be published in the journal Zootaxa (April 6) describes 30 new insect species in a single genus, Megaselia, of the fly family Phoridae.
The family is divided into three subfamilies, the Planchonioideae, with six genera, the best known of which is Barringtonia, and 59 species in tropical Asia, Malaysia, northern Australia, the Pacific Islands, and Madagascar; the Foetidioideae, with a single genus, Foetidia, and 17 species in Madagascar, Mauritius, and East Africa; and the Lecythidoideae of the Western Hemisphere.