Sentence examples for morphological characters given from inspiring English sources

The long branches of the LBC offer an ideal situation for applying posterior mapping to the study of the evolution of morphological characters, given the flaws that might be expected when applying maximum parsimony optimization to character reconstruction.

All morphological and microscopic characteristics were confirmed by comparing them with the characters given in the "Atlas of clinical fungi" [ 20].

The most striking result of morphological character optimization on the reference phylogeny was the considerable homoplasy required by all possible optimizations of many of these characters given the structure of Glossophaginae sensu Baker et al. (2003).

Here we measured morphological characters of G. fultoni and G. vernalis in areas of sympatry and allopatry (Table 1) to understand the patterns of variation of these characters given the divergent pattern of pulse and chirp rates in sympatric and allopatric G. fultoni populations.

What is more, this study showed that hybrids between T. sherloki and T. juazeirensis have intermediate morphological characters that may give them higher fitness than their parents, and thus may advance the process of house infestation by either fight or walking in case of an eventual natural hybridization.

Leaf morphological characters by species are given in Additional file 2. On the surface, the abaxial and adaxial epidermises were glabrous in 95% of the examined species.

All three algorithms, as applied to various data partitions (± nt3; ± morphological characters; nucleotides or amino acids), gave overwhelming support for the monophyly of Culicidae (node O), the monophyly and basal position of the subfamily Anophelinae (node A; gray box), and the monophyly of the tribe Sabethini (node I; gray box).

Measurements of morphological characters of most colonies in a given location fell within a narrow range around the mean.

Lebanon was supposed as a center of specific adaptation for diploid and tetraploid wheats given that some morphological characters were exclusively detected there [ 38].

Prior to the use of molecular data to build evolutionary trees, it was a great challenge to determine which morphological characters could be useful for classification, given their intraspecific variability [ 32, 88] and phenotypic plasticity [ 89- 94].

Given these results, traditional morphological characters must be plagued by convergence.