Hybridization tends to occur between species that are closely related, Dr. Lovette said, but an individual from one genus may occasionally form a pair with a bird from an altogether different genus, separated by many millions of years of evolutionary divergence.
Taaningichthys was previously a part of the genus Lampadena[ 4] although it was separated by Bolin [ 92] based on characters such as reduced number of photophores and flaccid body structure.
Within the genus Tetrahymena, two main clusters can be separated by molecular phylogenetic analyses: the australis and the borealis group.
This topology supports the the existence of the Nakaseomyces genus, and defines two clear sub-groups separated by an ancient split.
Furthermore, although nearly half of the reported cases of parallel adaptive evolution included in our meta-analysis occurred among taxa separated by less than 20 MY (within the same species or genus), there were still cases reported among taxa separated by more than 80 MY (species from separate families; e.g., parallel evolution of high-frequency hearing in echolocating bats and cetaceans [ 29]).
Common chimpanzees and bonobos are different species of the Pan genus (P an troglodytes and P. paniscus, respectively), separated by the geographical barrier of the Congo River.
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Because the island habitat of the genus restricts gene flow and because the two known species are separated by considerable distance geographically, the authors suggest that other unexplored, isolated tracts of dipterocarp forests between Thailand and Malaysia may contain additional species.
Fishes from the genus Nothobranchius show relative morphological uniformity, with the exception of three lineages that can be immediately separated by their morphology.
We also removed tips that represented hybrid taxa by identifying tip labels that included one genus and two specific epithets, as well as the word "hybrid" or where the two species names were separated by "x".
