In this study, preliminary analyses revealed potential correlations between certain morphological characters and differences in the transcriptional levels of epiplasmic proteins.
Taxonomical positions and phylogenetic relationships concerning the representative genera and species of this family have been mostly inferred based upon comparisons between morphological characters.
Similar to our observations, a relationship between pollen viability and other morphological characters and the age of the population were detected previously in other species that reproduce vegetatively [ 77, 78].
Historically, for a given taxonomic sample, congruence between the organismal phylogeny based on morphological characters and phylogenies of orthologous (single copy) genes was expected to provide no less than "the best evidence for evolution" (Zuckerkandl and Pauling 1965; Penny et al. 1982; Pisani et al. 2007).
The cophenetic correlation coefficient (CCC) between genetic dissimilarity matrix estimated from the morphological characters and the UPGMA clustering method was r = 0.93, showing a proof fit.
The cophenetic correlation coefficient (CCC) value between the genetic dissimilarity matrix estimated from the morphological characters and the UPGMA clustering method was r = 0.93, showing a proof fit.
According to leaf morphological characters and ISSR DNA markers, a high similarity between Chin-Shin-Oolong and Shy-Jih-Chuen was found previously (Hu 2004).
The morphological characters of immature insects of 24 orders were described, and illustrations of larval morphological characters, and keys to 16 representative families, were provided.
A sistergroup relationship between the Hemiptera and Thysanoptera, jointly known as Condylognatha [ 94, 95], has been proposed based on morphological characters and supported by 18S rDNA data [ 96].
