Sentences with phrase «species phylogeny»

Not exact matches

And phylogenies are inferred from a numerical analysis of characters (traits) common to the whole set of species being analyzed.

«A phylogeny and taxonomy is fundamental for all fields of biology that use lizards and snakes, to understand how to classify the species being studied, to interpret biological patterns in terms of relatedness, and even at a more basic level, to count how many species are in an area, for example, for conservation management purposes.»

«This unique resource has made it possible for the first time to place a new fossil species securely within the phylogeny of African cichlids.

Past studies looked at the phylogeny (evolution and diversification) of the species in southern parts of Asia based on DNA polymorphisms.

Indeed, Williams and co-authors expanded the Brewbaker dataset by including 2,511 species for which they modeled trait evolution (tri - vs bicellular pollen) using a modern (2013) seed plant phylogeny and two different sets of analyses.

Scientists depict the relationships between species with evolutionary trees, also called phylogenies.

A phylogeny shows the accumulation of species through time and the relationships between these species, much like a family tree shows how you are related to the other members of your family.

These results suggest that in the context of protein - coding data only, high — base compositional heterogeneity and life history have a strong impact on incongruence with the species tree, and thus are not suitable for generating a highly resolved phylogeny.

The researchers then mapped the fin shape of each species on the phylogeny, allowing them to track fin evolution from their ancestral state to living species.

The resulting PNAS study could have been three separate papers: the archival research of specimens from the Field Museum, the genetic phylogeny, and the neurobiological study of the living species.

«Very few studies have investigated Alzheimer's disease pathology in chimpanzees, the species closest in phylogeny and most genetically related to humans,» said senior author Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., associate professor and interim chair of anthropology at Kent State.

They also integrated these data with modern samples to create a genetic family tree, or phylogeny, that maps the evolutionary relationships of various snake species.

Wessinger's motivation for exploring the Penstemon phylogeny came from a «need to identify pairs of closely related species that have flowers adapted to different pollinators to use for genetic mapping studies.»

«Very few studies have investigated Alzheimer's disease pathology in chimpanzees, the species closest in phylogeny and most genetically related to humans,» said senior author Dr. Mary Ann Raghanti, associate professor and interim chair of anthropology at Kent State.

Phylogeny of Wisconsin spring - flowering plant species used in the analyses.

Here, we generate a robust molecular phylogeny for 70 primate genera and 367 primate species based on a concatenation of 69 nuclear gene segments and ten mitochondrial gene sequences, most of which were extracted from GenBank.

This phylogeny combines a robust framework for primate families and most genera based on nuclear genes with the expanded taxonomic coverage for genera and species that results from the inclusion of mitochondrial DNA sequences.

Phylogeny of Massachusetts spring - flowering plant species used in the analyses.

«In our novel approach, we create the phylogeny based on all the genes in a genome, and then use the phylogeny to identify which genes provide positive support for the divergence of species.»

Although the diversity of sponges and their uncertain phylogeny make it doubtful that any single species can reveal the intricacies of early animal evolution, comparison of the A. queenslandica draft genome with sequences from other species can provide a conservative estimate of the genome of the common ancestor of all animals and the timing and nature of the genomic events that led to the origin and early evolution of animal lineages.

Using a new reference genome for P. malariae and a manually curated draft P. o. curtisi genome, we are now able to accurately place these species within the Plasmodium phylogeny.

To begin with, the concept of «evolutionary nutrition» ignores the simple fact that taxonomy and phylogeny are not destiny, nor do they reliably predict the specific details of a species» biology, including its nutritional needs.

As species & serovar designations are continuously refined / changed & because serovar isolates do not directly correlate to clinical severity or form of disease, memorizing specifics of phylogeny is generally not necessary.

As part of the UC Molecular Phylogeny Lab, she used mitochondrial DNA to reconstruction of the evolutionary relationships among several species of California land snails.

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[3] and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA - based LTP release 106 by The All - Species Living Tree Project.