Sentence examples for phylogenetic characters from inspiring English sources

The aim of this study is not to perform a phylogenetical analysis or to find new informative phylogenetic characters, but is to use information about phylogeny and ecology to assess evolutionary processes that could explain a morphological differentiation of hystricognathous jaws.

This means we have trouble defining meaningful OTUs and defining good phylogenetic characters.

Unambiguously optimized derived phylogenetic characters were recovered as synontomorphies at two of the five growth stages, which are labeled at the corresponding numbers.

In Panax, the trnC trnD region provides a similar number of informative phylogenetic characters as the ITS regions and a slightly higher number of informative characters than the chloroplast ndhF gene.

This is based on the assumption that transitions, by virtue of their greater evolutionary rate, exhibit relatively more homoplasy and are therefore less reliable phylogenetic characters.

These form the basis of observations for phylogenetic characters.

The fossae associated with the eprl may be considered as an example of novel phylogenetic characters associated with the nomenclatural system presented herein.

All primary data, including the geochronological analysis, phylogenetic character list and character-taxon matrix, ontogenetic character list and character-specimen matrix, are available in the supplementary information and Extended Data.

The phylogenetic analysis (see Supplementary phylogenetic character list, Tables S5 and S6) recovered 18 most parsimonious trees, each having a tree length of 802 steps, a CI of 0.56, an HI of 0.44, and an RC of 0.45.

The length of the exoccipital articulation surface is equivalent with a phylogenetic character that differentiates hadrosaurines from lambeosaurines and non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroids (degree of the caudal extension of the supraoccipital-exoccipital shelf35,61,62).

We included D. horneri in an updated data matrix that is based on the most recent tyrannosauroid phylogeny11, which analyzed 366 characters, and we contributed another 20 new characters to the data matrix, for a total of 386 (see Supplementary Phylogenetic character list and Tables S5 and S6).