Sentence examples for morphological characters on from inspiring English sources

Students in this treatment mapped morphological characters on an existing tree representing six major groups of chordates (Additional file 1: Supplement 2).

Tracing our morphological characters on the molecular phylogeny with 42 taxa required 120 steps (CIMOL = 0.41).

To evaluate which of these classifications is the most appropriate one for the Circumdehiscentiae, we inferred a molecular phylogeny and traced several diagnostic morphological characters on the phylogeny.

While we explicitly addressed the question of the role of body size in mate-choice decisions, our experiment did not control for the influence of behavioral, olfactory, and/or other morphological characters on mate-choice decisions in H. abdominalis.

All the aforementioned suggest that the morphological characters on which those first analyses were based have evolved independently several times throughout the evolutionary history of cyprinids [ 25], resulting in controversial classification schemes [ 26].

Previously, Steiner and Hammer [ 18] had mapped a set of morphological characters on to their maximum likelihood tree substantiating their finding of ostreoidean/pterioidean sister-group relationship by two characters: the monomyary and the presence of the anal funnel.

Eleven native Xerocrassa species can be distinguished on Crete based on morphological characters of the shell and the genitalia [ 21].

Current taxonomy is based on morphological characters of asexual resting spores.

IL-hairy provides a unique opportunity to examine the effects of a morphological character on physiological traits, because its genetic background is almost the same as that of IR24.

Recently, using a cladistic method based on morphological characters and on a large set of specimens, Wiklund (1992) confirmed the inclusion of cultivated artichoke, leafy cardoon and wild cardoon, in a single species: C. cardunculus L. Her results also indicated that C. auranitica, C. syriaca and C. baetica were close relatives of C. cardunculus.

No morphological characters (either on genitalia or antennae) allow to distinguish one strain from another (B. Pintureau, pers. comm).