Sentence examples for internal ancestors from inspiring English sources

Note that S3a-x and S3b-x correspond to internal ancestors Y and Z from Figure 1.

We label the four taxa as A, B, C, and D and the three internal ancestors at bifurcation points as X, Y, and Z. See figure 1 for an illustration.

Given the known phylogeny, which includes the exact sequence information of all internal ancestors, we perform several computer simulations that mimic the actual population with varying degrees of accuracy.

Internal nodes represent ancestors, and can be connected to many branches; in this case the node is a politomy and represents either simultaneous divergence of descendants (hard politomy) or uncertainty about the phylogenetic relationship (soft politomy) [ 2, 3].

A phylogeny is a rooted tree that represents the evolutionary relationships of a set of elements (such as species, genes, … ) represented by its nodes: internal nodes are ancestors, leaves are extant elements and edges represent direct descents between parents and children.

For internal nodes (species' ancestors), the set of families is considered as a union of two groups: (i) families that appear in more than one immediate descendant, and (ii) families that appear in one immediate descendant and in at least one sibling of that node.

Donovan and Wilcox (2004) suggest that labeling the root or other internal node as "common ancestor" can help to overcome the abstractness of tree representations and support the interpretation of nodes.

It also would be useful to identify trees containing direct ancestors (the internal nodes on the path from the root of a taxonomy tree to the query taxon) of the query taxon.

This adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," first published by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886, centers around Tom Jackman, a modern-day descendent of Jekyll who begins to experience the same infamous internal transformation as his ancestor.

The barley HvCO3 gene and its rice counterpart (OsCO3; Os09g06464, a known flowering-time gene [53]) are unusual in having a single B-box that is likely to have arisen from a two B-box ancestor by internal deletion [51].

All of them define IBD similarly to us, as a segment of chromosome inherited in one piece from a common ancestor without internal recombinations.