The evolutionary pattern of functional modules can be represented as a sequence of key evolutionary events (changes) in consecutive timestamps.
Analysis of data partitioned by hierarchical clustering predicted a similar sequence of evolutionary events to that shown in Figure 3 (A ).
In spite of the difficulties with interpreting gene tree conflict as a specific sequence of evolutionary events, such patterns can certainly highlight the importance of such events, pinpoint the taxa involved, and yield hypotheses to be tested with targeted sampling within and among conflicting taxa, and with data from additional nuclear loci.
Tandem repeats may arise by a complicated sequence of evolutionary events, including multiple rounds of tandem duplication, deletion, point mutation, gene conversion and other phenomena.
The solution of these qualitative problem is approximated by an infinite sequence of functions which results from solving a sequence of stationary or evolutionary boundary value problems in each of the subdomains.
We suggest that the extant common architectures of plant Class I, Class II and Class III formins may have been produced by a relatively simple sequence of evolutionary events that has maintained a continuity of the Rho-FH2 and/or membrane-FH2 association, while the molecular mechanisms of these connections have changed.
Modelling demonstrates that this sequence of evolutionary events requires a strong selection pressure.
Usually, a primary goal of comparative genetic study is assembling a Tree of Life that represents the temporal sequence of evolutionary divergences.
As Yanai puts it, "in the very extreme", one could dream of non-anthropically explaining the entire sequence of evolutionary steps from monomers to a RNA-protein world.
The sequence of evolutionary changes, in turn, tells geologists the sequence in which mountain ranges and river systems arose and isolated frog populations as a result of the Indian tectonic plate pushing northward into Asia.
