At the higher levels, this classification uses node-based names to indicate points of evolutionary divergence between one group and another.
Considering the ancient (circa 1.5 billions years ago25,26) evolutionary divergence between the three Plantae lineages, we would expect some dissimilarities in the subcellular localization of certain enzymatic reaction or even entire metabolic pathways (i.e., metabolic compartmentation27) as consequence of more than one billion years of independent evolution.
Estimates of evolutionary divergence between sequences are presented in Fig. 6.
The chemotroph Poisson distribution (and Ks ~0.18 peak) represents the average evolutionary distance across sampled chemotroph communities and points to a strong bottleneck that, in effect, "reset the clock" on the evolutionary divergence between chemotrophs in Yellowstone hydrothermal communities.
They measured the evolutionary divergence between corresponding orthologous proteins under the prediction that orthologs expressed during mid-development will resemble each other more closely than during earlier or later stages (representing the hourglass model).
This difference in evolutionary divergence between the two genera may be due to differences in their activity patterns.
Our study shows that GLV IRES is functional in RRL system despite the evolutionary divergence between Giardia and rabbit.
DNA sequence alignment is a prerequisite to the identification of virtually all conserved sequence motifs and estimation of evolutionary divergence between sequences.
Although evolutionary divergence between Giardia and other eukaryotes causes difficulties, combining different computational approaches based on available biological information has proved to be an efficient strategy.
This may reflect the greater evolutionary divergence between trypanosomes and these models than between yeast and humans, but may also be a consequence of important differences between the systems.
Recently, deep evolutionary divergence between marine and freshwater SAR11 lineages was seen not only by means of 16S phylogenetic constructions and Unifrac analysis, but also by Fragment Recruitment Analysis using metagenomic libraries from environments of different salinities [65].
