Sentence examples for ancestral type from inspiring English sources

The 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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