Sentence examples for morphological disparity of from inspiring English sources

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.

We measure the morphological disparity of each module across 77 placental mammal species from the orders Primates and Carnivora, the same taxa used in the original analyses of cranial modularity.

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 modularity influences morphological evolution, one would expect differences in the morphological disparity of the "strong modules", those with significant within-module trait correlations in most taxa, and the "weak modules", those with mean within-module trait correlations that are significant in some examined species, but not significant in most of the taxa in each clade.

(E ) Estimates of morphological disparity of the stoma in Rhabditina.

Correspondingly, the low correlations in the "weak" modules should exert little control on the variation of individual traits, allowing high morphological disparity to evolve.

The researchers calculated morphological disparity for seven major dinosaur groups using wide-ranging characteristics of the intricate skeletal structure of nearly 150 different species.

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.

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].

Gould's interpretation of the Cambrian Burgess Shale fossils in his book Wonderful Life emphasized the striking morphological disparity (or "weirdness") of the Burgess Shale fauna, and the role of chance in determining which members of this fauna survived and flourished.