It was one member in a larger group, the order Bennettitales (known as the order Cycadeoidales in some classifications), which has been evolutionarily linked to angiosperms (flowering plants).
The photosynthetic plastids of Chromera and Vitrella are evolutionarily linked to apicoplasts, nonphotosynthetic plastids of apicomplexans, allowing the reconstruction of processes that shaped these organelles into their current form and function.
Although functionally related to ubiquitination, pupylation is carried out by different enzymes that are evolutionarily linked to bacterial carboxylate-amine ligases.
Also, it would be hard to detect if the INs are evolutionarily linked to the f gene and/or have similar substitution rates.
The IL-12 family, which is evolutionarily linked to the IL-6 cytokine superfamily, is composed of IL-12, IL-23, IL-27, and IL-35 [ 3].
This predicts that when judgement of colour is important, the spectra of signalling colours and photoreceptor spectral sensitivities should be evolutionarily linked, with the colours dependent on photoreceptor spectral sensitivities, and vice versa.
For example, the 'ripple effect' shows that the expression of a particular gene can affect the expression of its neighbors up to 100 kb away.17 Together, with the fact that neighboring genes are evolutionarily linked,18 we argue that the genomic location of lncRNA may contribute significantly to their function and their birth.
An interesting observation shows that PFS1 and PFS2 are evolutionarily linked and may have evolved from a common ancestor.
Finally, we present new conclusive evidence that the major Plasmodium VSAs PfEMP1, SICAvar, and SURFIN are evolutionarily linked through a modular and structurally conserved intracellular domain.
