Sentence examples for morphological characters found from inspiring English sources

The pairs of two distinct clades found within both M. japonica and M. yoshinagae have not been recognized previously, but careful reexamination of morphological characters found some support for these clusters from the morphology of petal and leaf surface structure.

Lisa Rosenberger's 2001 phylogenetic analysis, based on morphological characters, found that the bluntnose stingray is one of the more basal members of its genus, and that it is a sister species to the diamond stingray (D. dipterura) of the western Pacific Ocean.

Two contrasting morphological characters found within the LBC were selected (Figure 1 b).

To this end we undertook an empirical study of two morphological characters found within the flowering plant family Annonaceae of the early diverging magnoliids [20].

Also Kieneke et al. [19] using a parsimony analysis of 135 morphological characters found a monophyletic Thaumastodermatidae, but the monophyly of the two subfamilies was not recovered in their phylogenetic tree.

For instance, Hochberg & Litvaitis [18] using a parsimony analysis of 81 morphological characters found Thaumastodermatidae to be monophyletic, suggesting two autapomorphies for the family: (i) sperm ducts that internally connect to the caudal organ, (ii) a wide bulging buccal cavity.

Although the myxospore's morphology generally does not correlate with the phylogeny, several morphological characters were found to correspond partially to the phylogeny.

Most bionomical and several morphological characters were found to be congruent with the phylogeny.

Morphological characters are found phylogenetically informative in resolving apical nodes (superfamilies and families), but characters serving as evidence of relatedness of larger assemblages are few.

One set of studies that sampled all three genera of Phalaridinae and Torreyochloinae was based on restriction site and morphological characters and found Phalaris, Amphibromus and Torreyochloa to be part of a clade of Aveneae taxa, but none of these three taxa was closely related (Soreng and Davis 1998, 2000).

Although the macroheteroceran clade is recovered in the combined analysis, no unique morphological character was found to unite them.