Sentence examples for morphological character to from inspiring English sources

In all our analyses based on nuclear rDNA data, the three species of Plakinastrella form a monophyletic group, thus making the combination of those spicules a valid morphological character to define this genus.

Hence, the number of prongs on scales is not a good morphological character to use for determining relationships within Tetranchyroderma, although it is extremely useful in dichotomous keys [cf 25].

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.

Nor could Fain and Houde [ 3] identify a single shared derived morphological character to unit the members of Metaves.

However, in contrast to the placental/marsupial division that is supported by at least 50 anatomical and physiological synapomorphies [ 4- 6] the Metaves clade does not have a single published morphological character to support it, and there is no clear geographic separation from Coronaves.

We report here on a cladistic analysis designed to test whether the inclusion of fossil taxa affects the ability of morphological characters to recover the molecular ape phylogeny.

Geastrum welwitschii also has similar morphological characters to G. minimum in having small fruit bodies, whitish spore sacs, and fibrillose peristomes.

These results suggest that cultured PGCs maintain similar morphological characters to those of PGCs in vivo.

We analyzed one mitochondrial gene (Cytochrome oxidase I), two nuclear genes (Histone III and Wingless) and morphological characters to infer the evolutionary relationship of the 13 Acilius species.

Kawakami and Hagiwara [ 46] use a combination of mating type and morphological characters to redefine these two species.

We describe the two partial dentaries in detail and include them in a cladistic analysis based on both old and new morphological characters to test their lepidosaur affinities.