Sentence examples for major diversification of from inspiring English sources

The major diversification of modern birds probably took place in the Cretaceous, and it must have started early in that period because fragmentary fossil evidence of foot-propelled divers (Enaliornis) and of an early relative of the flamingos (Gallornis) are known from Lower Cretaceous deposits in Europe.

In the course of evolution, this mechanism has led to major diversification of protein folds and their functionalities.

We dated the origin of insects to the Early Ordovician [~479 million years ago (Ma ], of insect flight to the Early Devonian (~406 Ma), of major extant lineages to the Mississippian (~345 Ma), and the major diversification of holometabolous insects to the Early Cretaceous.

This was accompanied by major diversification of other organisms.

The 3R duplication may have led to the major diversification of the teleosts [ 2- 4].

This indicates that major diversification of the HyPRP gene family took place after separation of the lineages leading towards Solanaceae and Brassicaceae.

The first big bet was placed in 1973, when Bombardier made its first major diversification out of snowmobiles by supplying the city of Montreal with subway cars.

Reconstructing the gene complements, or repertoires, of the last common ancestor of the Bilateria and Metazoa are important goals for evolutionary biology, due to these ancestors having been the starting points for the major diversifications of the animal kingdom.

The other two subsequent divergences ascended to 6.06 and 3.51 Mya respectively, are presumably consequences of the global substitution of C3 to C4 vegetation [ 34], coinciding with the major diversifications of the birds of genus Garrulax [ 35], which are closely related to A. morrisonia.

Yuan et al. (p. 779) describe a new basal multi from a nearly complete skeleton that shows that the underpinnings of these adaptations arose early in the evolution of the order, setting the stage for the major diversification and radiation of the group that came during the Cretaceous and Paleogene.

Lester Ward, 1900 Our understanding of biotic evolution relies heavily on phylogenetic and dating reconstructions that provide insight into the periods of major diversification [ 1].