Sentence examples for morphological diversification of from inspiring English sources
A possible mass extinction, several clade-specific adaptive radiations and morphological diversification of fruiting bodies followed during the Cretaceous and the Paleogene, convergently giving rise to the classic toadstool morphology, with a cap, stalk and gills (pileate-stipitate morphology).
Research projects in the lab cover a diverse set of topics, including gene lineage evolution and the effects of gene duplication, the morphological diversification of floral parts such as petals and fruits, and the evolutionary and ecological significance of pollinator interactions.
The morphological diversification of insect hindwings has involved the acquisition of different sets of target genes by Ubx in different lineages.
The Lantian biota, probably older than and taxonomically distinct from the Avalon biota, suggests that morphological diversification of macroscopic eukaryotes may have occurred in the early Ediacaran Period, perhaps shortly after the Marinoan glaciation, and that the redox history of Ediacaran oceans was more complex than previously thought".
It would not be surprising if such a system controls the morphological diversification of paired appendages in different lineages (including lineages of cartilaginous fishes).
With such condition, allometry is therefore expected to explain a substantial part of shape variation and to play an important role for determining the pattern of morphological diversification of the mandible.
The mineralized skeleton is a major evolutionary novelty that has contributed to the impressive morphological diversifications of the vertebrates.
By contrast, subgroup II-2 genes evolve under relaxed purifying selection and have diversified through gene copy duplications and changes in miR156/529 regulation, which might contribute to morphological diversifications of land plants.
show a high molecular substitution rate in mitochondrial loci but little morphological diversification over millions of years [34].
In relation to this, Zimmermann et al. reported that ANXA4 plays an important role in the morphological diversification and dissemination of renal cell carcinoma [ 38].
Since the cichlids in each of these lakes appear to have undergone similar types of morphological diversification [11] (but see [16]), and since the ages of the lakes span at least two orders of magnitude [17], these groups of fishes approximate replicate radiations at different stages of expansion [11].
