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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ancestral type" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing genetics, evolution, or anthropology to refer to a species or form from which others have descended.
Example: "The researchers identified the ancestral type of the species, tracing its lineage back thousands of years."
Alternatives: "primitive form" or "original species".
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The sdCRRSPs are the ancestral type of DUF26-containing proteins.
Africa's duikers and dwarf antelopes are considered closest to this ancestral type.
The first mutant cannot invade because patches with type 1 cells and type 2+ mutants are outgrown by patches with type 1 cells and ancestral type 2 cells.
Galapagos finches, for example, have developed a multitude of adaptive types from one common ancestral type; their subspecies now differ mainly in beak shape and size.
This could be evolutionary elaboration of a single ancestral type (homology) or similar solutions to the problem of water conduction that arose independently in several lineages (analogy).
Some awkwardly installed more screens; some reverted to ancestral type by becoming theatres; some, in their later years, lured back many of their earliest customers with bingo; and others, yes, have struggled on.
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In all major eukaryotic supergroups, an ancestral type-PARP6/8 homologue also exists.
The ancestral-type WRKY TF (Group I) contains two WRKY domains, one N-terminal and the other, C-terminal.
A. mexicanus comprises an extant ancestral-type surface dwelling morph and at least five independently evolved cave populations.
We identified 14 genes from the "ancestral-type" PE family, of which 9 were pseudogenes and 5 were M. leprae-specific.
Nine genes, compared to only three in Chlorella, have significantly expanded coding regions relative to their homologues in ancestral-type green algal cpDNAs.
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