Sentence examples for states characters from inspiring English sources

We have therefore scored a number of taxa differently for some characters, redefined other characters and excluded three characters that did not appear to us to comprise discrete states (characters 100, 212 and 237).

An important question asked by the reviewer is how frequently RGC_CAs (which are 2-state characters) are in reality 3, 4, 5 etc.- states characters.

We tested the association of (1) sociality and tonal sound complexity both scored as two state characters, (2) social structure and tonal complexity scored as four state characters, and (3) each of the social components and tonal sound complexity scored as two and four states characters [see Additional file 5].

By comparison, the parsimony analyses still showed ambiguous ancestral states under the three character states (character 3, unordered; character 4; character 5, unordered) (see Additional file 4) although the same character state codings as in the likelihood method were applied and both sets of analyses used the identical comprehensive nuclear phylogeny.

We treated observable features describing the structure of molecules as phylogenetic multi-state characters.

Most genomic features were coded as Dollo characters; the presence/absence of trans-spliced group II introns were coded as irreversible characters, and the features related to the rps4 and rpoB gene structures were treated as ordered 3-states characters.

For this test we used only two state characters.

We study the compatibility of three-state characters further.

Unordered, multi-state characters were used for all transformations.

However, this argument does not extend to multi-state characters.

The algorithm Proper Triangulation for 3-State Characters runs in O(n m) time.