Sentence examples for morphological disparity for from inspiring English sources
The researchers calculated morphological disparity for seven major dinosaur groups using wide-ranging characteristics of the intricate skeletal structure of nearly 150 different species.
The discovery of Zhuchengceratops increases both the taxonomic diversity and the morphological disparity of the Leptoceratopsidae, providing further support for the hypothesis that this clade represents a successful radiation of horned dinosaurs in parallel with the Ceratopsidae in the Late Cretaceous.
If extrinsic factors are primarily responsible for the low taxonomic diversity and low morphological disparity of marsupials, then all regions of the skull, not just the early-ossifying viscerocranial elements, should show lower disparity in marsupials than in placentals.
The discovery of D. acrovatum further enriches the composition of the Posongchong flora and demonstrates great morphological disparity of the Early Devonian vascular plants.
This is on account of the morphological disparity of the ambulacrarians and a paucity of obvious stem-groups.
(E ) Estimates of morphological disparity of the stoma in Rhabditina.
DTT computes the morphological disparity of each subclade relative to the morphological disparity of all taxa, and plots the change in average relative subclade disparity through time.
The morphological diversity index (MDI) was calculated as the sum of the areas between the curve describing the morphological disparity of the trait and the curve describing the disparity under the null hypothesis of Brownian motion.
Combining analyses of rates and morphological disparity thus allows for a more complete analysis of tempo and mode in the evolution of diversity.
Variation exists in multiple directions to allow for such morphological disparity, but it does not exist in every direction.
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.
