Sentence examples for most closely relative from inspiring English sources

This was the case for the Enterobacterium Yersinia ruckeri for which no sequence information existed in the Wu et al.'s publication, and, instead, we used its most closely relative, which was Y. pseudotuberculosis for the bacterial phylogeny reconstruction.

In contrast, CL34, a relatively new repeat, has been amplified in cultivated potato as well as in its most closely relatives.

A search for the most closely related relatives to the most abundant coral-associated bacteria revealed that corals harbor many unclassified species and potentially novel genera or even higher taxonomic groups (Table 3).

The obtained sequences were checked in Chromas and the most closely related relatives identified using the NCBI blastn search tool.

The conceptually translated amino acid sequence of this open reading frame (467 amino acids) was used in alignment comparisons and phylogenetic analyses to reveal that LcUSP most closely resembles DmUSP relative to other known insect nuclear hormone receptors.

Here, networks of IL-4Rα indicate that red JF is the most closely related wild relative to the domestic chicken.

We preferentially collected sequences for the most closely related wild relative and outgroup for each domesticated lineage for which we could obtain a complete or nearly complete mitochondrial genome sequence.

Comparison with our most closely related primate relatives enables insights into human-unique physiology.

Ten of the most widely consumed grain legume species and their ten corresponding most closely related wild relatives were selected for this study (Table  1).

Austin and Arnold [ 19] recovered a divergence time of 17 mya for Mascarene Leiolopisma skinks, however this refers to the stem divergence time separating the Mascarene skinks from their most closely related Australian relatives.

All evidence thus suggest that species in this lineage of Pyrenean subterranean beetles have lost some of the physiological mechanisms linked to thermal tolerance commonly present in temperate insects, and it can be hypothesized that they reflect the default limits inherited from their most closely related surface relatives in the early Miocene.