Sentence examples similar to main morphological characters from inspiring English sources

It has, however, been used in taxonomy as the main morphological character to define several traditional genera, such as Microcoleus, Schizothrix or Hydrocoleum [3], with the tacit phylogenetic implication that rope-building is a synapomorphy, a case of shared inheritance of this trait in the present-day descendants of a common ancestor that built such ropes.

The 2006 analysis identified small spores as the main morphological character for Group 1 [ 11].

As a result, a general perception is emerging that many morphological characters previously used to infer phylogenetic relationships among gastropod main lineages may be homoplasious [ 13, 28], and that gastropod phylogeny needs to be revisited.

This is for two main reasons: First, the morphological characters used for species definitions are not phylogenetically conservative.

The main problems arise when considering morphological characters.

Large bundles of lamellae and rectangular entities with single crystal character were the main morphological structures observed by AFM.

For discrete morphological characters, which are the main focus of this study, the posterior mapping approach using a continuous-time Markov chain and implementing the Mk model of Lewis [8] has been proposed [1], [4].

This simulation allowed us to conceive what the ancestor of all myxozoans probably was and to find out the morphological characters of ancestors of the main clades.

The main reason for this is the small number of available morphological characters (mostly slight differences in wing colouration) which are highly susceptible to homoplasy.

The three main clades could be considered as tribes and we list some morphological characters that define them.

The main part of the fungal life cycle is, however, a somatic – typically mycelial – phase that offers few discriminatory morphological characters and that may be difficult to assign even to family or ordinal level.