Sentence examples for conserved traits from inspiring English sources

We argue that evolutionary history is not only a source of uncertainty, but also provides the basis, through conserved traits, for very general explanations for biological regularities, and the prospect of unified theories of life.

Reconstruction of ancient evolutionary radiations is devilishly difficult and will likely require broader sampling of sponge and ctenophore genomes, improved analytical strategies and critical analyses of the phylogenetic distribution and molecular mechanisms underlying apparently conserved traits.

On the other hand, exotics have evolved elsewhere, meaning that conserved traits may be more important in their new ranges.

In particular, disturbed plant communities were more phylogenetically clustered than expected by chance, suggesting the action of environmental filters on phylogenetically conserved traits.

They found on BCI that the average phylogenetic structure was close to random and concluded that in some cases evolutionarily conserved traits were favored in stressful habitats, whereas species composition in the slope and swamp habitats may have been driven by ecological interactions, such as competition.

That closely related host species have similar relationships with their fungal inhabitants suggests that evolutionarily conserved traits act as plant-imposed habitat filters.

There is some evidence pointing towards the existence of smaller sets of conserved "trait loci" underlying variation in some traits.

The phylogenetically independent contrasts performed herein demonstrate that the average rate of recombination is a relatively well conserved trait among closely related plant lineages.

More importantly, perhaps, detailed comparative analysis shows that the embryos of lungfish and axolotls share conserved morphogenetic traits that are basal to vertebrates, most notably a conserved mechanism for gastrulation (Shook and Keller, 2008 ).

However, not all microbes respond similarly to rewetting events, indicating adaptation in life strategies that may be phylogenetically conserved ecological traits [12, 13].

Epidermal cells are the exception to this tendency, as they have conserved cytological traits in both systems, namely vacuolated cells that are well organized in the outer surface of the galls but intermittent in the inner surface (Carneiro and Isaias 2014).