Sentence examples for morphological evolution but from inspiring English sources

To our knowledge, there is no phylogenetic research that has demonstrated bursts of morphological evolution, but the methodology we have used is new and we look forward to investigators applying it to morphological characters in the future.

Therefore, these Bacteroidales symbionts provide an opportunity to investigate not only the coevolutionary relationships with the host protists and their morphological evolution but also how symbiotic associations between prokaryotes and eukaryotes occur and evolve within a complex symbiotic community.

The proponents of the punctuated equilibrium model propose not only that morphological evolution is jerky but also that it is associated with speciation events.

Increasingly sophisticated methods exist for answering questions about patterns and rates of morphological evolution [ 51- 53] but have yet to be applied to test key innovation hypotheses.

Therefore, convergent morphological evolution in these related, but independent, vertebrate lineages might have different genetic origins.

On this view, genetic changes continue to accrue within lineages but morphological evolution is retarded, leading to decoupling of morphological and molecular evolution [ 40].

Furthermore, these phylogenetic results not only have implications for morphological evolution within Polypteridae (below), but also reveal the hidden genetic diversity of this ancient clade of enigmatic fish.

Similar morphologies must have evolved several times independently, but details on this morphological evolution are scarce.

The fin-to-limb transformation is a prominent but still unsolved example of morphological evolution.

A slower rate of morphological evolution compared to molecular evolution could explain the observed pattern (but see below).

Insight into diversity, body size and morphological evolution from the largest Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird.