Sentence examples for morphological matrices described from inspiring English sources

For the correlation of molecular distance data with morphology, uncorrected distances were calculated with PAUP* from the morphological matrices described above.

The microsatellite and morphological matrices had only 0.05% missing data.

JAD elaborated the morphological character statements, participated in the scoring of morphological matrices, wrote substantial portion of the discussion section and helped to draft the manuscript.

Finally, we sampled ten important morphological characters from previously published morphological matrices [ 18, 28, 58, 100] and mapped them on the CATGTR based tree.

In order to place the newly described fossil in a phylogenetic context, we assembled a morphological matrix that is based on the phylogenetic assessment of Miller [ 30], including all extant and fossil members of the extant genera plus those fossil rhizome species that agree in all anatomical features with those of modern genera [see Additional file 1; ESA].

We also determined the most parsimonious placement of the newly described fossil within the molecular tree of Metzgar et al. [ 32] implemented into the morphological matrix using Mesquite v. 2.75 [ 149]; this is done by simply moving the fossil within the given topology and recording the incremental increase in steps added to the resulting whole tree-length (see [ 133, 150] for applications).

Morphological matrix is a popular tool for conceptual design.

Actually, a first draft of the Futures Map can be just a piece of paper with a fixed morphological matrix.

A morphological matrix of 46 discrete characters was compiled for all taxa (Table S1, S2).

JTH developed the morphological matrix and carried out some of the morphological analyses.

Only five morphological characters (2% of our morphological matrix) were coded as polymorphic.