Sentence examples for a diagnostic trait from inspiring English sources
New and better specimens can show what the rest of an animal was like and provide information that would help split it from an existing species, or show that an apparently unique feature was common, removing a diagnostic trait.
Variation in the shape of the male aedeagus has been found to be a diagnostic trait among some subspecies of Drosophila [ 42].
Expression differences from analyses conducted without Monmouth data (Fig. 4) yield four candidates with large enough differences to be used as a diagnostic trait for resistance.
Moreover, this is the general pattern for several spiralians, so it cannot be viewed as a diagnostic trait for annelids (see Tables 3 and 4 for details).
A diagnostic trait of most E. coli strains is that they can only grow on citrate anaerobically, whereas Salmonella, for example, can grow on it aerobically.
Aedeagus morphology is a diagnostic trait that along with chromosomal inversions provides a guide for species identification in the genus Drosophila and particularly in the D. repleta species group [ 6, 19, 20, 32].
Of those studies that considered SShD, most have discussed it as a diagnostic-trait for diverse purposes, such as sex identification or the analysis of ontogeny [ 5- 14].
Here, cyto-nuclear disequilibrium has been identified in the narrow zone of species overlap in Iceland [ 12, 29, 30, 74, 75], which scales well with a transition zone based on vertebral counts, a nearly diagnostic trait between the two species of eels [ 12, 32].
However, dual modes of budding have been reported within a single coral species [ 61] and may therefore not be a good diagnostic trait to differentiate species.
However, as for dental enamel thickness, a number of Late Miocene apes (such as Oreopithecus) also have a reduced or absent canine premolar honing complex, which might also make this a problematic diagnostic trait (McNulty 2010).
It turns out that a number of Miocene ape species have independently acquired thick enamel, making it a difficult diagnostic trait for exclusive hominin status (Begun 2004).
