Sentence examples for morphological characters used from inspiring English sources

However, due to low node support, the trees are indifferent to whether the morphological characters used to unite the Marynidae are the result of retention of ancestral states or convergence.

Secondly, the types of morphological characters used (metric/continuous or non-metric/meristic) vary widely among studies.

(Brus & Trautman 1995)   (3) Secondly, the types of morphological characters used (metric/continuous or non-metric/meristic) vary widely among studies.

The monophyly of the rhizomatous Clade SVLB suggests a single evolutionary origin of the adaptation to the cave-like limestone microhabitats, and shows that ecology is good indicator of taxonomic relationships than traditional morphological characters used to defined sections.

Based on an analysis of how morphological characters used in defining Begonia sections evolve across a chloroplast DNA phylogeny (Thomas et al., 2011), it has become clear that Begonia sect.

Several molecular phylogenetic studies have demonstrated the paraphyly or polyphyly of these large sections, suggesting homoplasy of morphological characters used for current sectional delimitations (Tebbitt et al. 2006; Thomas et al. 2011; Chung et al. 2014).

Species were identified based on external morphological characters using identification keys [ 26- 29].

Given the uncertainty in the identity of pterioidean sister group, it is instructive to explore the effect of alternative combinations of outgroup taxa on the distribution of diagnostic morphological characters using the best available hypothesis of the ingroup relationships.

These results suggested that a continuous phenotypic cline existed based on the subtle morphological and behavioral characters used originally to describe the separation of the two subspecies (e.g., [77]).

For example, species-level identification in the seaweed genus Ulva is typically difficult, notably in view of the intraspecific variability often seen in the rather few morphological and anatomical characters used for species discrimination.

Some morphological characters traditionally used to define major taxonomic splits within Cuscuta are homoplastic and are of limited use in defining true evolutionary groups.