Sentence examples for may represent relicts from inspiring English sources
Alternatively, these rare taxa may represent relicts of a once more broadly distributed lineage that suffered massive extinction.
Inselberg populations within the BAF (populations JA, CB, TB and JI) may thus represent relicts of xeric plant communities that probably extended further towards the coast during drier periods, thereby allowing gene exchange with populations currently placed in the Caatinga biome.
Thus, Tbp1p may represent a relict of the original shelterin-like complex in budding yeast.
Finally, the disjunction of the two Clematicissus species in eastern and western Australia [ 30, 81] may represent a relict distribution and their divergence time in the Pliocene is consistent with the aridification in central Australia at that time [ 82, 83].
It is likely that other elements of the steppe vegetation in the region also represent relicts from the pre-Holocene era and suffered similar effects during glacial periods, as shown recently for field mouse [ 75].
One hypothesis that could explain the current distribution of cpDNA diversity is that mangrove populations represent relicts of much larger ancestral populations but that after Pleistocene-Holocene sea-level fluctuations, the mangrove composition shifted to a R. mangle -dominated community [ 55, 57, 59].
They represent relict landscape features eroded by extensive ice overriding the whole coastal area before at least 6 Ma (pre-dating the build-up of the Mt. Melbourne volcanic field).
macrorrhizum[ 19], which could represent relict eastern forms.
Alternatively it is possible that they represent relict species that are in progress of extinction.
Based on paleogeographical facts, they have been thought to represent relict populations of a wider geographic distribution that existed along the Eurasian Arctic coast during warmer post-glacial times < 10 ky ago (e.g. [ 14]).
These species may represent a natural enlargement of the range ("natural invaders"; [30]) or they may be relict populations that use the seamounts as a refuge [67].
