Sentence examples for more terminal taxa from inspiring English sources

Each ladder had either three or four "major" branching points, each of which yielded a clade of three or more terminal taxa (i.e., those named at the tips of the cladogram).

The Jepson Herbarium also maintains the standard flora for the state the Jepson eFlora which treats all native and naturalized plants in the state, more than 7,500 terminal taxa (i.e., species, subspecies, and varieties) with contributions of more than 300 authors.

Tree A is more balanced near the terminal taxa, while tree B is more balanced near the root.

This scenario would be more likely if the unresolved nodes subtend many terminal taxa in the assemblage of interest (Fig. 1).

A weakness of the program is its assignment of nearly every area occupied by the terminal taxa in the tree to the more basal nodes, unless some type of constraint is imposed.

A visual inspection of the phylomorphospaces shows a clear phylogenetic effect in the distribution of taxa because internal branches are larger than more terminal branches.

This is an intuitive result as this method unresolved more basal nodes in the phylogeny and therefore a larger number of terminal taxa were influenced.

Third, as the number of terminal taxa in the phylogeny increased each metric tended to be more sensitive to the degree of phylogenetic resolution.

Therefore, the authors suggest using cladograms with terminal taxa oriented horizontally a vertical root to branch orientation and the placement of more complex taxa in the middle to help avoid teleological thinking.

Since the first prototype was developed, researchers have contributed more than 6,500 trees from over 2,400 articles, describing the relationships among well over 60,000 terminal taxa.

With low taxon sampling, distantly related terminal taxa may group together with strong support values in the absence of more closely related taxa.