Sentence examples for very ancestral from inspiring English sources

There is no indication of a close relationship of Actinobacterial KatGs with fungal counterparts, although Actinobacteria are considered as close relatives with Neomura (i.e. the very ancestral eukaryotic branch [30]).

The absence of an organellar genome and the diversity of metabolic pathways in peroxisomes from different lineages suggested a very ancestral endosymbiosis -probably predating that of mitochondria-of a metabolically complex ancestor.

In addition to confirming that the human genome also evolved through gene losses of very ancestral genes and not only by duplication events and the emergence of "new genes", this study also reinforces the hypothesis first formulated by Kortschak et al [ 8], that the genome of our far ancestor was more complex than usually considered.

The ancestors might find some of the ideas to their liking: crushed oyster shells, reflective pools and their very own ancestral chambers.

Adaptation to a very different ancestral environment may be maladaptive in the current one.

However, brachiopods evolved from a very different ancestral line, and the resemblance to bivalves only arose because of a similar lifestyle.

For this to have happened, it is thought that a very small ancestral population came to Madagascar via a single rafting event between 50 and 80 million years ago.

The BTB04-003 strain may be either a very early ancestral variant, occurring before the RD105 deletion, or may have developed independently through selective pressure.

Overall, the mitochondrial protein import components analysed in this study confirmed a high level of conservation during evolution, indicating that most are derived from very ancient, ancestral proteins.

The study supported the fact that cattle have undergone a rapid decrease in effective population size from a very large ancestral population, possibly due to domestication and artificial selection [19].

This pattern is consistent with a birth-and-death model where most mutations go extinct with only very few ancestral polymorphisms surviving to become dominant [ 67].