Sentence examples for sole lineage from inspiring English sources
Cyanobacteria are presumed responsible for this geochemical revolution, as they comprise the sole lineage known to have innovated the production of oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis (Mulkidjanian et al., 2006).
Birds are now recognized as being the sole surviving lineage of theropod dinosaurs.
We report here the 521,168-bp cpDNA sequence from a member of the Chaetopeltidales (Floydiella terrestris), the sole chlorophycean lineage not previously sampled for chloroplast genome analysis.
In a village full of people who were so closely related, all tied to the same lineage, he was the sole drifting island of anonymity.
However, plastome markers are tightly linked on a single (typically) non-recombining molecule that usually reflects only the maternal lineage in angiosperms, limiting the generality of plastid DNA as the sole source of evolutionary markers at and below species level.
In one of the four lakes (Ragnerudsjön), morphometrics failed to clearly assign morphotypes based on carapace shape – and this was the sole lake that lacked significant lineage differentiation (gsi) and genetic differentiation.
We are therefore left with the remarkable conclusion that a two million-year-old island contains the sole survivor of an ancient lineage that predates the existence of Bermuda by well over 10 million years.
Clustering of these genes is thus not a sole preserve of the deuterostome lineage within Bilateria.
The deadly human pathogen Bartonella bacilliformis holds an isolated position in the Bartonella phylogeny as a sole representative of an ancestral lineage.
Three of these lineages comprise the four ARN genes encoded in the genome of S. cerevisiae S288C reference strain [ 9- 12] and one additional lineage comprises the sole C. albicans gene encoding a siderophore transporter [ 62, 63].
Remarkably, given that it is the sole representative of an ancient lineage, Glaucocystis attracted only one random sequence in all of the analyses performed, the fewest for any taxon in our investigation.
