Phenotypic clustering did not support existence of two distinct groupings, but indicated a degree of distinctiveness of Central Cumaná (CC) population.
The degree of distinctiveness of the South American dryland biota is the result of the history of lineages and place (diverse topography, climates, vegetation) in the southern part of the continent since the Oligocene.
We found that features extracted from the left arm motion samples exhibit an overall higher degree of distinctiveness compared to those from the right arm motion samples.
Fingermarks often suffer from low quality (a small amount of relevant information present or a low degree of distinctiveness) due to being smudged or partial, overlapped with other marks [6] or distorted by the surface pattern of the object on which they are found [7].
However, the high degree of distinctiveness and independent evolution is supported by orthology analyses, which revealed a higher degree of gene conservation among Phytophthora species than downy mildews.
To date, there are no factor analytic studies that have investigated the degree of distinctiveness between stress-reactive rumination and other forms of repetitive thinking.
However, there is considerable evidence for host adaptation (ecotypes) within S. agalactiae, with both bovine and human sourced isolates showing a high degree of distinctiveness, suggesting differing ability to cause mastitis.
The population in the Santa Cruz Mountains may be a third ESU (Figs. 3 and 5), but limited availability of fresh tissues from localities in this area prevented us from accurately determining the degree of distinctiveness and level of genetic isolation of the population.
Although the degree of distinctiveness between these clusters of human gut microbiota is still a matter of debate (Ding and Schloss, 2014; Koren et al., 2013), a consensus on their usefulness as a stratification tool is growing (Moeller and Ochman, 2014).
Additionally, there was a high degree of distinctiveness between locations across river basins as revealed by significant pairwise ΦST -values [e.g., ΦST = 1 between CON-BCY (Mayo-Conchos), CON-COV (Mayo-Nazas), CON-HUA (Mayo-Yaqui) and BCY-HUA (Conchos-Yaqui)].
A composite reservoir is one with multiple compartments, each having distinct rock properties separated by geologic discontinuities; these discontinuities regulate the degree of compartment distinctiveness depending on the amount of leakage involved.
