These events preceded Branch Rickey's signing of Jackie Robinson making the NFL not Major League Baseball the first major sports league to desegregate.
These observations go in line with previous descriptions in a reelin-deficient rat model (shaking rat Kawasaki), where a direct branching in the cortical plate was described to precede branching of the fibers that took the detour to the pial surface during developmental ingrowth of TCAs (Higashi et al. 2005).
Moreover, our branch-specific analyses implicated positive selection on the stem lineage of the b-like clade, where the Ser42Gly and Met95Ile replacements occurred, but not on the preceding ancestral branch where the Val139Ile replacement occurred.
A dendrogram based on an alignment of seven tetrapod periostin sequences (see above) together with the nine teleost periostin sequences shows, among the teleosts, a separation into two major branches by periostin locus 1 vs. 2 preceding the branching into the multiple teleost lineages, and thus echoing the genome duplication event.
The branch-site analysis showed positive selection on the branch preceding the divergence of DEF-like genes in the Poales (Table 5).
The branch preceding the common ancestor of the core Poaceae was specified as a foreground branch, and all the others as background branches.
The LCRs from a given phylogenetic group were considered to have been formed in the branch preceding the common ancestor of the group.
We next set out to investigate whether we could identify signatures of possible positive selection in the form of genes with accelerated rates in the branch preceding the diversification of the ' glabrata group'.
This approach is called "phylogenetic bracketing" [ 97], which obtains not only minimum, but also maximum constraints on the timing of a branching event using the dates of the preceding and subsequent branching episodes [ 98, 99].
But nature-as-network preceded the branching tree, was never completely supplanted by trees, and seems set to re-emerge as the most-inclusive metaphor for the living world - the "Network of Life" [ 110].
