Sentence examples for largest taxa from inspiring English sources

Butterflies and moths are one of the largest taxa to solely feed and be dependent on living plants, in terms of the number of species, and they are in many ecosystems, making up the largest biomass to do so.

Thus, the smallest and largest taxa showed the lowest values of the RSM.

This so-called 'large-Z effect' was reported in both birds [ 79, 81– 83] and Lepidoptera ([ 5, 84], the two largest taxa with female heterogamety.

This finding is not surprising as Vertebrata is also the taxon with the most number of miRNAs in miRBase (5157), more than three times the number of miRNAs in the next largest taxa, Viridiplantae (1638) and Arthropoda (1194).

In comparison, pNJTree gets near-linear speedup for large taxa sets.

According to Paley, the classification of species into larger taxa would be rendered impossible by widespread extinction.

However, a fundamental problem with the previous implementations of this method is its limitation to handle large taxa sets within a reasonable time and memory resources.

Two likely explanations for this are that children are more aware of larger taxa or that children prefer larger taxa.

Sensitivity analyses (Text S1) indicate that our estimates of dinosaur locomotor cost are robust, especially for larger taxa.

Our method does account for size effects, using a hip-height-based approach for smaller taxa and a muscle volume-based approach for larger taxa.

Our study provides independent results that support the reconstruction of endothermy in large dinosaurs; indeed our method most clearly supports this inference for larger taxa.