Sentence examples for morphological characters support from inspiring English sources

Recent large-scale phylogenetic analyses of exclusively molecular or combined molecular and morphological characters support a close relationship between Crustacea and Hexapoda.

Many morphological characters support the Pachastrellap clade claimed by Topsent [80].

Although a few morphological characters support a turtle-archosaur group [ 8], morphologists in general have not embraced the molecular tree.

Few morphological characters support Afrotheria, but the inferred biogeographic story, involving continental breakup in the Cretaceous, is so compelling that it quickly gained wide acceptance.

For instance, morphological characters support the relationships between A. barbata and A. aphanea [ 36], while topology obtained through the cyt b gene placed A. barbata within the Central-Eastern clade as the sister species of the not-barbeled species.

In fact, among the clades that differ between the two analyses, non-homoplastic morphological characters support only one clade (Himantolophidae, Diceratiidae, and Melanocetidae) and that with only a single character (8: the condition of the ventromedial extensions of the frontals).

The possibility thus exists that morphological characters supporting a Scopus, Pelecanus, and Balaeniceps have gone previously unnoticed.

Hinic-Frlog and Motani [144] reported correlations between foot-propelled diving and the narrowing and elongation of the pelvis, as well as the proximal expansion of the cnemial crest; and indeed, several of the morphological characters supporting a loon/grebe clade in the present analysis are related to these structures (e.g., characters 296, 316, 324, 360, 361).

Morphological characters supporting this position are not clear.

Our separate analysis of morphological characters supported the grouping of Gnetales with angiosperms.

There were no morphological characters supporting a further subdivision of A. parviclava.