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Ommatidae is arguably the "most ancestral" extant beetle family.
Ommatidae is one of the "most ancestral" extant beetle families and a very small group.
Birds also lost the cystatin E/M gene, while the most ancestral extant mammals (Prototheria, represented here by platypus) have lost fetuin B and kininogen genes (Table 2).
To estimate the most likely ancestral node representing the first benthic to pelagic shift of OPM cyprinids in eastern North America, we first designated extant taxa as benthic (0) or pelagic (1) based on a combination of morphological and ecological characteristics (Additional file 3).
Most extant herring populations in the Baltic are spring spawning.
Most extant bacteria have only one of these enzymes.
Evidence of lineage-specific positive selection was identified in 14 genes in both ancestral and extant lineages.
A basic spliceosomal organisation is present in Giardia suggesting that the spliceosome is ancestral to extant eukaryotes [ 46].
Most of the ancestral components are retained in many extant CRISPR-Cas subtypes, in particular, the Type III systems that show relatively little variation.
The spliceosome, the machinery responsible for the splicing of introns in eukaryotic genes, is ancestral to all extant eukaryotic groups with the last common ancestor possessing a complex machinery, similar to that found in most modern organisms [ 7].
