Sentence examples for most recent ancestor from inspiring English sources

During the three waves there have been several instances of long-range transmission, in which a strain has reached a location distant from that of its most recent ancestor.

A comparison of the mt genome architecture in plant-parasitic nematodes and phylogenetic analyses support that Pratylenchus is the most recent ancestor of root-knot nematodes.

However, the most recent ancestor common to both birds and mammals was not endothermic, which means that endothermy is homoplasious when these groups are compared with each other.

Under its current definition Crocodylia is restricted to only the most recent ancestor of today's modern-day crocodilians (alligators, crocodiles, and gharials).

Its most recent ancestor was likely Procyon rexroadensis, a large Blancan raccoon from the Rexroad Formation characterized by its narrow back teeth and large lower jaw.

The putative phylogenetic distribution of this character suggests that the most recent ancestor of Oxyrrhis and dinokaryotes also possessed body scales.

Alan Garner's most recent ancestors were metalworkers.

Thus, studies of avian cones may provide clues to the organization of the cone system of ancestral species including the most recent ancestors of birds, the theropod dinosaurs.

LCAs are the most recent ancestors shared by a pair of individuals.

Each selfing line is founded by an outcrossed ancestor: the most recent outcrossed ancestor (MROA) of the individuals belonging to that selfing line.

This suggests that the most recent eukaryal ancestor was derived from the common ancestor of Bacteria and Eukarya.