Sentences with phrase «third branch of the tree»

As a few researchers had been arguing ever since microbial evolutionist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois first suggested it in the 1970s, archaea may look like bacteria, but they actually belong on a third branch of the tree of life.

Archaea are prokaryotes that make up a third branch of the tree of life.

Not exact matches

This mysterious relative was probably from a third branch of the hominid family tree that produced Neandertals and Denisovans,

(A) Cladogram of ExaML TENT avian species tree, annotated for nodes from Fig. 2 (letters), for branches with less than 100 % BS without and with (parentheses) third codon positions, for strong (> 75 % BS) intron gene tree incongruence and congruence, and for indel congruence on all branches (except the root).

An ExaML TENT tree that included the third codon position (TENT + c3) was identical in topology to the ExaML TENT without the third codon position and had increased support for six of the nine branches that had less than 100 % BS (fig.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center statistical geneticist Ryan Bohlender said that the hominid species is not likely Neanderthal or Denisovan but one that belongs to a third but related branch of family tree that produced the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, an extinct distant relative of Neanderthals known only from DNA collected from a finger bone and teeth that were discovered in a Siberian cave.