A single ancestral gene may have multiple descendants due to gene duplication, or no descendants because of gene loss.
We then selected for sequencing in the next phase of the project an additional 620 monkeys, chosen based either on i) their having multiple descendants or ii) their having been assessed for ≥ 7 phenotypes or having multiple biological samples available.
The phylogenetic history of these extended haplotypes was examined using a haplotype network [20], since network approaches account for the persistence of ancestral haplotypes, the existence of multiple descendant haplotypes, recombination, and low levels of sequence variation [21].
Network approaches have several advantages over traditional phylogenetic methods such as trees, since they account for the persistence of ancestral haplotypes, the existence of multiple descendant haplotypes, recombination and low levels of sequence variation [21].
The emergence of V. cholerae O139, one of the two strains responsible for epidemic Asiatic cholera, appears to be a result of LGT from multiple and diverse descendants of the seventh pandemic O1 El Tor strain [2], [3].
During this time in wild-type animals, germ cells have typically undergone multiple divisions, and descendants of somatic gonad precursors Z1 and Z4 have divided to generate 12 somatic cells (Kimble and Hirsh 1979).
And the Dornish, like the Spanish, are descendants of people from multiple continents, who are noted, like Moorish Spaniards, for their liberality and tolerance.
Group A would be Y-line descendants of that child, through multiple lines of descent.
Some years ago, I started receiving multiple copies of a letter apparently written by the descendants of Jacques Tati complaining bitterly about a forthcoming animated adaptation of one the maestro's unproduced screenplays from 1956.
