Sentence examples for most basal clade from inspiring English sources

Based on morphology, John McEachran and Neil Aschliman determined in a 2004 phylogenetic study that Platyrhinoidis and Platyrhina together form the most basal clade of the order Myliobatiformes, and are thus the sister group to all other members of the order (encompassing stingrays and their relatives).

Eastern Palearctic G. gracilicornis group belongs to the Macrogerris subgenus which is located in the most basal clade of Gerris [36].

Collections from the Ancash -Huaylas Valley formed the most basal clade.

We had no ancestral node on which to base estimates of the most basal clade.

A second group of the Chilean isolates constitute the most basal clade (F).

Most discussions from molecular studies place emphasis on either Afrotheria or Xenarthra as the most basal clade [ 25, 34].

The most basal clades in groups A and B (Fig. 1: 8–12 142–14) were endophytic; we therefore hypothesize that the endophytic habit may be ancestral in the Sebacinales and the starting point for the development towards specialized mycorrhizal symbioses.

Amborella, Nuphar (water lily), and Illicium (star anise) represent the most basal clades of extant angiosperms.

The origin of the tribe is firmly based in the Southern Hemisphere with the arrangement of Neotropical and Afrotropical taxa as the most basal clades suggesting a Gondwana vicariance origin.

While eosimiids are generally considered the most basal simian clade (a stem group of simians), the phylogenetic placement of amphipithecids is more disputed.

Alternatively, if poriferans are the most basal metazoan clade, then Drosha, Pasha and canonical miRNA functionality must have been lost in the Mnemiopsis lineage.