Sentence examples for a conserved character from inspiring English sources
It could be argued that the nuclear membrane-associated projections seen in ratites and some reptilian species simply reflect a conserved character (symplesiomorphy) that is no longer of functional significance.
The results generated to the mitogenome of M. scutellaris in this study suggest a conserved character in comparison to M. bicolor.
This suggests that Runx-mediated control of cPKC gene expression may be a primitive conserved character (i.e., plesiotypic) in animals, whereas the functional output of this interaction (cell death or survival) varies with context, something that would bear on whether a given Runx gene is an oncogene or tumor suppressor.
However, it is an old conserved character state that does not substantiate monophyly of a clade [ 37].
Such long-branch effects can be caused by the independent acquisition of identical character states [ 98], phylogenetic signal erosion ("long branch repulsion") [ 99], or by symplesiomorphy (retention of an old conserved character state) [ 100].
A conserved role for retinoid signaling in vertebrate pancreas development.
Suh, J. M. et al. Hedgehog signaling plays a conserved role in inhibiting fat formation.
A conserved role for serotonergic neurotransmission in mediating social behavior in octopus.
Segmentation has traditionally been thought to be a conserved morphological character complex supporting an Arthropoda plus Annelida clade, "Articulata"; an implicit assumption has been that homoplasy of segmentation is unlikely.
Therefore, although examples of independent taxon-specific evolution of regenerative mechanisms exist [ 14], the ability to regenerate the CNS by activation of radial glia seems to be a conserved shared character of deuterostomes.
The separation of the northern Turkish population from the southern population and the southeastern European populations is difficult to explain: it could be due to a conserved ancestral character of the northern Turkish population.
