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The Gospel of the Ebionites is the conventional name given by scholars to an apocryphal gospel extant only as seven brief quotations in a heresiology known as the Panarion, by Epiphanius of Salamis; he misidentified it as the "Hebrew" gospel, believing it to be a truncated and modified version of the Gospel of Matthew.

Egyptian Jews also composed poems and plays, now extant only in fragments, to glorify their history.

This comedy, which is extant only in fragments, was produced at the festival of the Great Dionysia.

Most influential were his works on astrology (see Burnett 1999); but works like On the Intellect were also translated, and as noted above there are works in the Kindian corpus that are extant only in Latin.

However, there is also a general reason why frequencies cannot be correlated with substitution rates - observed frequencies apply to sequences of extant taxa only, whereas substitution rates refer to ancient as well as recent evolutionary changes.

In the extant taxa only analysis, Pelecanus is recovered as the sister taxon to Suloidea, with Fregata as the sister taxon to this larger clade in a monophyletic Steganopodes.

Mapping the extant as well as the ancestral character states onto the phylogeny in Figure 1 suggests that only few evolutionary steps occurred since the last common ancestor of the studied species.

Zoo populations exceeding this value were recorded in 98 out of 367 extant species only.

As a result, we focus our study on the rate dynamics of extant FVs only.

Although we have ancient DNA data for only a few extant species, as researchers have tended to focus on the extinct ones, DNA sequences from modern populations suggest that many living species may have much lower genetic diversity than they had during the Pleistocene.

As the only extant rhynchocephalian, Sphenodon represents the best available sister taxon for molecular analysis.