Sentence examples for principal monophyletic groups from inspiring English sources

The eukaryotic sequences are recovered as two principal monophyletic groups, each with high bootstrap support and Bayesian posterior probability.

Monophyletic groups contain a common ancestor and all its descendants.

This classification system of eukaryotic taxa divides species into monophyletic groups, or clades.

Monophyletic groups are defined by the possession of shared, derived traits known as apomorphies.

Fig. 11 Identifying monophyletic groups Fig. 12 Two of the five monophyletic groups on the hypothetical tree.

Why is it important to have monophyletic groups?

Using Hull's choice (1964; also see Wiley, 1981), only classifications containing monophyletic groups and only monophyletic groups were logical classifications relative to the phylogenies they represent.

We propose a new classification based on monophyletic groups recovered by phylogenetic analyses.

Within clade 2 none of the traditionally recognized subspecies formed reciprocally monophyletic groups.

Fig. 5 Aimee generated a phylogenetic diagram using apomorphies to define monophyletic groups of taxa.

Each phylogenetic tree contains as many monophyletic groups as there are ancestors.