Sentence examples for nearest extant from inspiring English sources

Chromosomal rearrangements are thought to be important in the speciation events separating the human from its nearest extant relative, the chimpanzee [39], [40].

These results correlate with phylogenetic studies presenting evidence that the marattioid ferns are nearest (extant) relatives of horsetails [ 43].

monophyletic insect order with uncertain evolutionary origins, inclusive of any clear understanding over the group's nearest extant relative.

Although the nearest extant relatives of Banksia (Austromuellera and Musgravea) are confined to the rainforests of northeastern Queensland, at the opposite end of the Australian continent, our reconstruction of ancestral regions places the crown node of Banksia in the SWBP with a high probability.

P. euphratica is found in dry deserts with deep underground water while P. pruinosa is distributed in deserts where the underground water is closer to the surface, and therefore more accessible, but also saltier near ancient or extant rivers.

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.

"These may be the best places to search for extant life near the surface of Mars," said Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona and senior author on the study.

This result agrees well with data on the autosomal nuclear genome: based on 60K SNP genotypes of Near Eastern and European pigs and wild boars, Manunza et al. [ 14] demonstrated that there was no Near Eastern footprint in extant Canarian pigs.

Incomplete taxon sampling can give the appearance of nodes near the root of the tree giving rise to more extant descendants than nodes near the tips and are therefore more likely to be included in a small random sample (a bias toward more nodes closer to the root of the tree) [ 71, 72].

The Amida (Amitabha) of the Hōō-dō (Phoenix Hall), of the Byōdō Temple at Uji, near Kyōto, is his only extant work.

Through application of a nearest-neighbor imputation approach, spatially extant estimates of forest C density were developed for the conterminous U.S. using the U.S.'s annual forest inventory.