Sentence examples for extant at least from inspiring English sources

Archaeobotanical studies confirm that some of those plants were available and used by humans in the past while others would have been extant at least in forest refugia, even during glacial periods.

The violinist you reported is Mr. Rudolph Kolish, and you went to say that he is the only left-handed professional violinist extant, or, at least, the only one known to Mr. J. C. Freeman, of the Wurlitzer Tells about Ernest Moore who could switch from right to left and back on a normally strung violin.

From Marchia's Parisian lectures of 1319 20 we have a popular commentary on all four books of the Sentences, extant in at least ten manuscripts for each book, with two distinct redactions of book I and two differing versions of books III and IV, alongside various abbreviations (on Marchia's works, see Friedman-Schabel 2001 and Marchia 2008, xix xxiii).

Like their extant relatives, at least some Triassic Scleractinia hosted dinoflagellate symbionts - such associations conceivably evolved as a consequence of widespread oligotrophic conditions [ 24, 25].

Many botanists believe that extant gymnosperms represent at least two evolutionary lineages: one that leads to the extant conifers, taxads, and possibly Ginkgo and the gnetophytes and another that leads to the cycadophytes, represented today by seed ferns, cycadeoids, cycads, and perhaps others.

The oldest members of this group are Carboniferous in age (Fig. 4e; Vogel and Durden 1966; Jeram 1994b; Legg et al. 2011), and the oldest known member of an extant family is at least 50 million years younger (Lourenço and Gall 2004).

It therefore seems that extant species - at least in the northern Holarctic - are depleted in both genetic and ecomorphological diversity when compared with their Pleistocene counterparts.

For example, good reasons exist to suspect that whether X i is tolerated by a population in an extant protein depends, at least in some cases, on what amino acid is present at other sites j.

Odobenidae includes a single extant species and at least 20 fossil species in 14 genera [ 2], with the most basal taxa known from the late early Miocene (ca. 21-16 mya).

Since we know that protein sequences can actually help in measuring divergences and building deep phylogenies, this suggests that variations in time of Ne and s are common, and that their rate of change is what controls in the first place the amount of amino-acid differences between extant sequences - at least as far as nonadaptive changes are concerned.

Our results indicate that the last common ancestor of extant eukaryotes encoded at least two PARP proteins, one similar to human PARP1 and functioning in DNA repair and damage response, the other likely acting in mono(ADP-ribosyl)ation; the cellular role of the last group is not known.