Sentence examples for have extant from inspiring English sources
Experimental crosses have now proved that all these pathogens have extant capacity for genetic exchange, with potential to generate new genotypes and spread virulence and drug resistance.
As I pointed out previously, it can be misleading to only consider branches in the tree of life that have extant representatives [ 91].
If this suboptimal tree is accurate, then at the end of the Oligocene there would have been at least three separate lineages of odontocetes that have extant descendants.
16 and 17 of these species have extant congeneric relatives performing NADP-ME or NAD-ME sub-type C4 photosynthesis respectively.
Did the animal forms we see today evolve from a larva-like animal, or have extant larval types evolved multiple times independently, or is the biphasic (larval to adult) life cycle an ancient, shared feature of the Metazoa [ 5, 6]?
Furthermore, the brown kiwi and kakapo belong to entirely different evolutionary lineages, evolved their nocturnal behavior independently and have extant diurnal relatives which facilitate comparative studies (brown kiwi relatives: emu Dromaius novaehollandiae, rhea Rhea americana, ostrich Struthio camelus; kakapo relatives: kaka Nestor meridionalis, kea Nestor notabilis).
(In any case, Leveaux, one of three associate directors at the Donmar, has extant and time-consuming ties in Japan to Theatre Project, Tokyo).
It is difficult to distinguish clinical symptoms of viral infections from the typical respiratory distress associated with CF, so it is possible that CF individuals in this study could have had extant viral infections [8].
Patients were excluded if they were managed non-operatively, presented late following their injury, had serious injuries to either lower limb that interfered with rehabilitation of the hip fracture, or had extant local disease precluding fixation, for example, local tumour deposit and symptomatic ipsilateral hip osteoarthrosis.
I'm as guilty of this as the next author; in seven published novels, I have one extant mother, although in my defence I do have two fantastic foster mothers, and one much-loved stepmother.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to assign a precise chronology to its emergence or to other events that may have preceded extant DNA/RNA/proteins cells.
