Sentence examples for ancient branch from inspiring English sources

Irenaeus was once the patriarch of Jerusalem, the highest authority of this ancient branch of the Orthodox Church, until he was ousted from his position in 2005.

For amateur genealogists like me who want to delve into older mysteries, the thoroughly modern process of DNA testing can answer age-old questions, like which ancient branch — known as a haplogroup — of the world's family tree you belong to and how your forebears fanned out from Africa to the rest of the world.

He is sometimes claimed as a highly important promulgator of the late ancient branch of Platonism (usually called 'Neoplatonism') rather than as an original philosopher.

Annelida is an ancient branch of the Metazoa that has probable Lower Cambrian origins at least [76].

Ire1-mediated mRNA splicing therefore is considered to be the most evolutionary ancient branch of the UPR.

b) A novel vertebrate member of the dystrobrevin family, γ-dystrobrevin, an ancient branch now extant only in fish, but probably present in our own ancestors.

To substitute for fossils, and thus reconstruct the ancient branches of the tree as well as the modern-day leaves, Dr Dunn used mathematically informed guesswork.

I'd like to sit under the tree's heart-shaped leaves and ancient branches, smell the incense and butter lamps and flower offerings, listen to the monks chanting sutras.

Because both the "non-pestis subspecies" in central Asia region and the microtus strains in China belong to the ancient branches of Y. pestis [7] and share common feature of low virulence (or avirulence) to large mammals [3], [37], [38], we suggest to broaden the term "microtus" to the meaning of the term "pestoides" group.

Trichomonads are anaerobic flagellated protists often considered to represent one of the most ancient branches of eukaryotes [ 1].

Thus, the rate of parallel changes is not uniform, with deeper, more ancient branches being more prone to parallel changes.