Sentence examples for instead of extant from inspiring English sources

Not only older spacers had longer opportunity for deletion but they also match ancient, instead of extant, mobile elements.

Instead of coding extant Unipeltata as showing variable states for certain characters, we coded instead a single extant species, Squilla mantis.

It should be noted that the support for Lipotes as the extant sister-group to Delphinoidea + Inioidea, instead of as the extant sister taxon of Inioidea, is marginal (BS = 0.87; ddBS = 7.48).

However, our present work show that SBPase share a common ancestor with the Class I FBPase of extant epsilon-proteobacteria instead of arising through functional specialization of the eubacterial bifunctional F/SBPase.

The PRF has noted that a large percentage of AC proposals are now "continuation" proposals that seek additional funding for extant projects, instead of new, unexplored research projects.

In this respect this approach outperforms parsimony and ML methods which instead tend to produce lower estimates at deep nodes when using only data of extant species.

Instead, Hamilton et al. [ 14] suggested that Cenozoic changes in sea level essentially stranded the ancestors of extant river dolphins in different river systems, where they subsequently developed intolerance to salt water on at least three occasions.

Instead, in exploratory experiments phenomena are investigated without first limiting the possible outcomes of the experiment on the basis of extant theory about the phenomena.

An alternative scenario suggests a coincidence between diversification events in each of the extant land plant lineages instead of a 'continuous replacement' idea.

Muller, J. Fossil pollen records of extant angiosperms.

The various strands of Extant feel very Twilight Zone.