Sentence examples for extant representative from inspiring English sources

One way to accomplish this is to complete a phylogenetic survey of duplicated meiotic genes throughout the Cladocera, all of which reproduce via cyclical parthenogenesis, and in the clam shrimp Cyclestheria which may represent the closest extant representative of the lineage from which cladocerans arose [ 112].

He is the only extant representative of the Old Comedy that is, of the phase of comic dramaturgy (c.

This study shows for the first time the presence of O-MALT in the mucosa of the African lungfish, an extant representative of the closest ancestral lineage to all tetrapods.

It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae, and its closest living relatives are the wombats.

Sometimes called a "living fossil", it is the only extant representative of the family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old.

Furthermore, this divergence occurred ∼16 million years ago (Ma) (95% credible interval = 11.5 to 19.8 Ma), well before any modern species, and the lineage contains no extant representative other than P. longirostris.

The earliest fishes probably fed on detritus, and a sucking action is retained by their extant representatives (lampreys and hagfishes).

Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) are the only extant representatives of Australia's unique marsupial family Phascolarctidae and were listed as nationally Vulnerable in 2012.

On the basis of our analyses, these may be the oldest scleractinian families with extant representatives.

Some extant representatives of Prochlorococcus have been shown to contain genes encoding the protein phycoerythrin (cpeB and cpeA) [13], [35], [36].

Hence, one of the most important issues does not actually involve the recognition of the hystricognathous condition of a mandible but more the name used to designate this group of rodents, or more exactly all the extant representatives of this clade.