Sentence examples for most primitive extant from inspiring English sources
However, they may be the most primitive extant grasses, numerous specializations reveal considerable evolutionary advancement.
In either case, Hydrozoa is considered to be the most ancient of cnidarian classes, and Trachylina is thought to be the most primitive extant order of that group.
Much evidence from G. lamblia indicated they might be the most primitive extant eukaryotes.
Amitochondriate protists were once thought as the most primitive extant eukaryotes because of their lack of mitochondrion and other primitive characteristics [ 28, 29, 58].
Our results demonstrate that the full complement of the orthologues of the known vertebrate photoreceptive visual pigment genes are expressed in the retina of the Australian lungfish, the nearest, and most primitive, extant relative to the land vertebrates.
After recent shaking of the chiropteran tree by molecular phylogenetics, rhinopomatids retained their basal position – in morphological respects they are still the most primitive clade within Rhinolophoidea and, thus, also the most primitive extant clade within the Yinpterochiroptera in the sense of Teeling et al. [ 3].
Megapodiidae, a family of specialized mound builders from Australasia, is the most primitive of the extant families.
In fact, particularly interesting is its behaviour, since it is considered the most primitive of the extant grazing ruminants concerning the feeding style [ 37].
In the traditional view, Rhinopomatidae were regarded as the most primitive group of extant bats, the closest to the common ancestor of microbats and megabats [ 12, 14].
The unicellular protist Giardia is one of the most primitive organisms that represent the earliest branching among extant eukaryotes [ 39, 40].
Such an incongruence implies that the extant Cercideae bearing the simple, entire or bilobate to bifoliolate foliage is unlikely to be the most primitive in Leguminosae, but the derived as some authors formerly suggested from an extinct legume ancestor possibly with palmately compound leaves [ 68] or pinnately compound leaves [ 27, 69].
