Sentences with word «taxon»
The word "taxon" refers to a group or category in the classification of living organisms. It helps scientists organize and categorize different species based on their similarities and evolutionary relationships. Full definition
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brachyptera Klarert... more taxon associations
Owing to this morphological similarity, westslope cutthroat trout populations with less than 20 per cent non-native admixture have been included as part of the native taxon in a recent status review (Department of the Interior (DOI) 2003).
The criteria should be applied on the basis of the available evidence on taxon numbers, trend and distribution, making due allowance for statistical and other uncertainties.
Euxanthus tuberculosus Unreviewed • Hypocoelus punctatus Unreviewed • Banareia inconspicua Unreviewed... more taxon associations
Using taxon - specific data from mass bleaching events throughout the tropics from 1982 — 2005 that were previously published in peer - review, gray literature, and electronic databases (Table S3) we compiled 1,412 unique records of bleaching severity and related mortality (Table S2).
Listen to calling songs of crickets and katydids from North America north of Mexico and from the Caribbean on EOL taxon pages.
So, to find a single distinctive vertebra of that age on the beach at Whitby, and one that represents a new taxon of sauropod dinosaurs, is indeed a (white) feather in the cap for Yorkshire.»
The decision to use the 20 per cent threshold continues to be controversial because the potential fitness effects of this amount of admixture are unknown, and the threshold used will influence the decision to list by determining the number of populations classified as part of the native taxon (Haig & Allendorf 2006).
The concept of incomplete lineage sorting is commonly invoked to explain morphologically mixed groups where the features of interest are present also in allopatric populations belonging to the same taxon [51].
Those who see it as a valid taxon tend to see it as more closely resembling modern H. sapiens than does H. erectus.
In short, H. ergaster does not show significant promise of lasting as a separate taxon due to several factors.
July 31, 2002 Added a new article: Homo habilis: is it an invalid taxon?.
The Newsfeed for this EOL Taxon Page gathers updates associated with items shown on it, including curator actions and comments from EOL users.
Susan Richardson added an association between «Image of an unknown taxon» and «Sorites orbiculus (Forskal, 1775)».
Only with the advent of collecting trips designed to investigate a particular taxon did the range of variation within a species begin to be understood.
Insects are invertebrate animals of the Class Insecta, the largest and (on land) most widely - distributed taxon within the Phylum Arthropoda.
Kellogg originally placed this species in the genus Ontocetus, an enigmatic tooth taxon reported from the 19th century.
Also, more recent analyses by other researchers seem to indicate that even if ergaster specimens are considered as a different taxon than erectus, the erectus material is still closer to modern humans cladistically.
Crossing studies indicate that the wild bird pepper is genetically the most closely related taxon to domesticated C. annuum (Emboden 1961; Smith and Heiser 1957; Pickersgill 1971).
That raises a puzzling question: If the protein is so bad, why do animals dating back to the 400 - million - year - old coelacanth fish taxon produce it?
The cost of rewriting the Endangered Species Act alone «could range in millions to billions of dollars,» according to one recent article in the journal Taxon.
Oxyscelio was first recognized as a distinct taxon in 1907, from a specimen collected in Java, Indonesia.
Seen here is a Late Cretaceous specimen from the Hell Creek Formation, morphotype HC62, taxon Rhamnus cleburni.
To avoid redundant functional assignments, the best - rated similarity hit with at least one GO annotation per taxon was chosen.
They shift for reasons that seem obscure and unnecessarily wonkish to people who simply want to use names to refer to a consistent, knowable taxon such as species, genus or family.
This suggests that the role selection plays in driving genome size evolution is likely taxon - specific.
Data included community composition by 16S rRNA gene iTag analysis and metaproteomic analysis of partially purified fractions of the community proteome that catalyzed toluene biosynthesis from phenylacetic acid; proteins were identified by mapping peptides to a community metagenome (Joint Genome Institute IMG Taxon ID 3300001784).
A monophyletic taxon is also called a clade.
It also puts an exclamation mark on the argument that A. afarensis was a fully committed terrestrial biped, given the radical restructuring of its foot that already had occurred relative to that of a contemporaneous partly arboreal hominin taxon.»
The bee was carrying pollen of a previously unknown orchid taxon, Meliorchis caribea, on its wings.
g.» [The reanalysis of Narmada Man] puts another nail in the coffin of Homo erectus as a viable taxon.»
In terms of the overall composition of the fecal microbiome, however, differences may exist both in taxon distribution and relative abundance as a result of cultural or dietary habits.
Within the AZA, Dr. Riggs is vice-Chair of the Animal Health Committee, Chairman of the Veterinary Advisory Group, Veterinary Advisor for the waterfowl Taxon Advisory Group, and the Veterinary Advisor for Species Survival Plans for the white wing wood duck and brown kiwi.
The distribution of the artist taxon is cosmopolitan or pandemic, meaning they're found in almost every geographic region, as are the orca, brown rat and pigeon.