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But it served as the editorial home of Stephen Jay Gould, the nation's most prominent evolutionary biologist, until his death earlier this summer.

Among Schiedea's most prominent evolutionary transitions have been remarkable changes in its growth habit, ranging from rainforest vines and perennial herbs through mesic and dry forest subshrubs and shrubs to cliff-dwelling shrubs [13] (see Table S1).

The most prominent evolutionary change took place in the maturation schedule, and in the PMRN intercept in particular (Fig. 3A).

The most prominent "general" evolutionary tree of Haeckel, depicting the presumed phylogenetic relationships between animals, plants and various "lower organisms" is reproduced in Figure 6.

Each group of taxa was thus selected for being a result of evolutionary pressures, and opposed to other groups either lacking their most prominent characteristics, or subject to distinct evolutionary pressures.

Among the genomic parameters, expression level is the most prominent and consistent negative correlate with protein evolutionary rate in unicellular organisms [ 12- 15].

In the 1970s Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium which holds that stasis is the most prominent feature of the fossil record, and that most evolutionary changes occur rapidly over relatively short periods of time.

The combination of sequence searches with structural information has allowed the restoration of the distant evolutionary history of UlaGL proteins, whereby the most prominent feature is the relatedness of modern metabolic UlaGL enzymes with the widespread RNase Z essential enzyme.

Within this study, we also focused on the nine most prominent non-centromeric TR families (Cast1 Cast9) in order to define evolutionary trends and mechanisms of TR dispersion throughout the genome.

Increased rates of protein evolution are most prominent for genes regulating brain size and behavior within the evolutionary lineage leading from ancestral primates to humans (Dorus et al. 2004).

According to Briggs, the most prominent contemporary supporter of this hypothesis, centers of diversity "act as centers of evolutionary radiation and supply species to other areas that are less effective in an evolutionary sense" [ 10- 12].