Sentence examples for morphological disparity and from inspiring English sources
Lindsey Dougherty for SCUBA-based research in Indonesia combined with museum sampling in order to quantify predation instances in Ctenoides ales, the "disco clam". Elizabeth Ferrer to continue her studies of fossil and extant varanid specimens and for analysis of the interaction of morphological disparity and diversity in varanids.
However, we were able to test how differences in integration influence morphological disparity, and our results show that, for the most part, there is no simple relationship between integration and disparity.
10.7554/eLife.05463.008 Figure 3. Developmental plasticity, morphological disparity, and evolutionary tempo in diplogastrid nematodes.
Their usefulness in evolutionary biology originates in their high evolutionary rates, high taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity, and usually well-known stratigraphic (i.e. temporal) framework (see [ 52- 54]).
Integrating this type of "retinome" scale analysis with the methods we show here would give a more detailed and informed view of gene evolution in the context of morphological disparity and innovation.
This activity forces the students to think about the longevity of species (length of branches), number of branches, and the relationship between diversity and morphological disparity (width of tree) as they relate to the formation of their hypothetical high and low volatility clades.
Combining analyses of rates and morphological disparity thus allows for a more complete analysis of tempo and mode in the evolution of diversity.
Figure 8 summarizes the variation of trophic diversity and morphological disparity throughout ontogeny of damselfishes, highlighted during the present study and others [ 4, 28, 29, 50, 66, 67].
While there may well be commonalities to the relationship between modularity and morphological disparity across mammalian clades, there are also significant differences related to selection pressures, ecology, and even life history.
The distinctive body configuration reinforces the remarkable appendage specialization associated with feeding and locomotion and overall morphological disparity in lobopodians during the Cambrian explosion.
Foote, M. Morphological disparity in Ordovician Devonian crinoids and the early saturation of morphological space.
