Sentence examples for may be ancestral from inspiring English sources

An organism that may be ancestral to the trilobites, as well as to other arthropods, may be represented by Spriggina, which is known from Precambrian shallow-water marine deposits in Australia.

It included fables, especially those of Aesop; folk legends, such as those in the much read Gesta Romanorum; bestiaries, which, along with Aesop, may be ancestral to that flourishing children's genre, the animal story; romances, often clustering around King Arthur and Robin Hood; fairy tales, of which Jack the Giant Killer was the type; and nursery rhymes, probably largely orally transmitted.

Many are from extinct populations; others may be ancestral but show no detectable links to any living group.

Anthericoides share one important character (which may be ancestral for the genus, since it is occurring as well in other Liliaceae genera, Peruzzi 2016): the platyspermous (flattened) seeds.

The geographic distribution and genetic similarity of W1 to other wild and domestic populations suggest the possibility that it may be ancestral to the entire ORSC.

Ardipithecus kadabba is a poorly-known species appearing at 5.7 million years ago from Ethiopia (Haile-Selassie et al. 2004) that may be ancestral to the better known Ardipithecus ramidus (White et al. 1994).

The distribution and phylogeny of EF-1α indicate that this protein is ancestral in the Euglenozoa, and the distribution of EFL in deep-branching members of all three euglenozoan lineages suggests that this protein may also be ancestral.

The APH1 and Nicastrin proteins may also be ancestral to Eukaryota, but our data is inconclusive for PEN2 on this point (found only in Unikonta and Plantae).

The shared polymorphism in sister species may either be ancestral or derive from hybridization, and the accuracy of analytic methods used thus far to derive convincing evidence for the occurrence of present day hybridization is largely debated.

We conclude that the angiosperm PAL genes are not derived from a single gene in an ancestral angiosperm genome; therefore, there may be another ancestral duplication and vertical inheritance from the gymnosperms.

The addition of the glucose units to the rhamnan backbone requires the acquisition of specific transferases and it was not possible to identify any of the three serotypes as the ancestral serotype and none of these serotypes may be the ancestral serotype [12].