Sentence examples for morphological characters has from inspiring English sources

Generalized homoplasy in morphological characters has been found in comparison with molecular data designed to test mammalian inter-ordinal relationships (Springer et al., 2007).

Phylogenetic studies have proved that extensive convergence or parallelism of morphological characters has occurred during the evolution of Ganoderma [ 17– 17].

It is evident that the traditional taxonomy of the Ganoderma complex based on morphological characters has long been chaotic, thus limiting its uses [ 12, 13].

A cladistic analysis of Annelida, based on morphological characters, has resulted in a new classification [ 10, 11], with three major clades of the Polychaeta: Scolecida, Aciculata (= Amphinomida + Eunicida + Phyllodocida), and Canalipalpata (= Terebellida + Spionida + Sabellida [incl. Pogonophora]).

Classifying parasitic plants using morphological characters has long been difficult because of the extreme reduction or alteration of vegetative and floral morphology that occurs in holoparasitic lineages [ 3, 14].

Since that time, the amount of molecular data published on cetaceans has increased by more than two orders of magnitude, the number of relevant morphological characters has increased ~50%, while advances in computer applications and analytical methods now enable large-scale phylogenetic analyses that could not be completed in 1998.

Most of the information available from the fossil material pertains to its morphology and the means to quantify morphological characters have become of great importance.

Recently, a growing body of morphological characters have been identified that may also support a close relationship between flamingoes and grebes [29], [140] [142].

The difficulties in defining characters and their states, and particularly the fact that distinct taxonomists assigned distinct weights to morphological characters, have probably been the largest obstacles to the establishment of broadly acceptable classifications of numerous difficult groups of fungi.

Such plastic variations in environmentally dependent morphological characters had also been documented in reef corals [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15] Coral colonies are made of multiple genetically identical modules (polyps) that are physiologically integrated [16].

Phylogenetic analyses based on morphological characters have not yielded consistent results either, e.g. [ 9, 10].