In America, "ancestral" means your parents' house.
Her ancestral name, meaning "precious flower", can be traced back through five generations of musicians to the house of Kamehameha and Ahiakumai which ruled Hawaii in the 15th century.
This insight was gained by decoding the Y chromosome of rhesus monkeys, which shared a common ancestor with humans at the time, and retain 20 ancestral genes, meaning those that have a counterpart gene on the X.
The second possibility is that they have developed some reproductive isolation mechanism, and S. biwaensis is recently derived from S. variagatus ancestral stock, meaning that it has not yet accumulated genetic differences in any neutral markers.
However, despite the fact that frequent inclusion of exon 12a may imply only infrequent translation of exon 12b, the ancestral coding meaning of exon 12b has been highly conserved in the vast majority of vertebrate Meis genes; the only exceptions are anole lizard Meis3, which seems to have lost the entire exon, and zebrafish Meis1.2, which has a much shorter sequence.
The study sought the origins of the mother tongue and implemented Mingas de Pensamiento, or Collective Reflection Sessions, on the origin and meaning of ancestral thinking.
The genes involved in breaking down lactose (the key sugar in milk products) and starch (the key nutrient in domesticated plants) were in an "ancestral" form, the team reports, meaning that hunter-gatherers were not good at digesting these foods, which later became essential to farming societies.
But as soon as the arrangement was in place, it was accepted as an ancestral tradition, without a clear meaning, but saved from blatant absurdity by the hefty weight of precedent.
In addition to direct Pi uptake, symbiotic phosphate uptake is an ancestral Pi acquisition strategy for plants, meaning that some PHT1 genes are induced by arbuscular mycorrhizas [ 16, 29, 40, 63, 75].
On average, non-ancestral ORFs had lower CDI values meaning that their nucleotide composition tends to exhibit a poorer fit to the nucleotide frequency model.
