How To Use Clade In A Sentence
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Furthermore, outgroup comparison (with macaques, for example) indicates that some of these characters are primitive for the cercopithecid clade that includes these species (Papionina).
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A clade is a group, consisting of a single organism and all of its descendants.
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By the way, nothing cladistically out-of-line with the term reptile, so long as we agree that Reptilia is a clade in which case it includes Aves and excludes Synapsida of which mammals are part.
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The existence of a rhinolophoid-megabat clade has also been supported by other research teams (e.g.,
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A clade is an ancestor species and all of its descendants
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Several workers have suggested that the entire alveolate clade is derived from a photosynthetic ancestor.
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The shaded and unshaded rectangles indicate the two inferred recombination blocks in each clade, designated numerically as blocks 1 and 2.
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The berries in the most derived clade (Olmstead et al.'s subfamily ‘Solanoideae’) are all morphologically similar, with two carpels, axile placentation and mostly lenticular seeds.
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The peoples of the Cyclades and Crete were seagoing folk, and their first trading voyages to the islands of the Aegean seem to have been for obsidian.
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In cladistics, the clade is a hypothetical construct based on experimental data.
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Alethinophidians and scolecophidians form a monophyletic ophidian clade that is also unresolved within scleroglossans.
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Other authors have used morphological evidence in support of a relationship of snakes to a clade comprising amphisbaenians and dibamids.
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CYTHNUS, one of the islands called the Cyclades, in the Ægean Sea.
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Among these clades are such diverse forms as arawanas, knifefishes, mormyrids, eels, tarpon, and herring.
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Both clades show some overlap in their geographic distribution around the equator.
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If so-called compsognathids – all of them relatively small, ecologically and morphologically generalized, long-limbed, long-tailed theropods that hunt small vertebrate prey – are not a clade but are actually scattered about the base of the coelurosaur family tree, this likely indicates that this ecotype was the ancestral one for coelurosaurs.
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There is no trend from dextrality to sinistrality, but rather large clades characterized by one form or the other, sometimes with large-ish subclades of the complementary type.
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The presence of a commensal parasite that can display mutualism within a clade of known pathogens suggests dynamic evolutionary interactions.
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Divergence times among clades in the ochrocephala complex were estimated using two different molecular clock calibrations (no specific calibration exists for the Psittaciformes).
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Whether Euchoreutes is actually a member of either of the two dipodid clades that have been recognised in phylogenetic studies of this group - Dipodinae and Allactaginae (Shenbrot 1992) - remains uncertain.
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Thecodontia therefore is an evolutionary grade of animals, rather than a clade.
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So cladistics is a reductive method, stripping a defined set of taxa, that have for sure one trait in common, of all distinguishing, autapomorphic traits to arrive at sets of plesiomorphic traits that are common to all taxa in the monophylitic clade.
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This clade is also referred to as Batrachia and is placed in superorder Salientia.
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Because Reptilia is not a clade, your counter argument falls apart: we do not expect a nested hierarchy in this group.
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In a study of osteological and soft-tissue characters, Mayr & Clarke (2003) also found gruiforms to be polyphyletic: rails, trumpeters and cranes (referred to from hereon as the ‘gruiform core’) were one of the most basal groups within Neoaves, bustards were without close relatives, and seriemas formed a clade with … .. hoatzins.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin
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_Nunt_. et hoc in ista clade mirandum accidit, alit unda flammas, quoque prohibetur magis, magis ardet ignis: ipsa praesidia occupat.
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In fact most populations excluding East Eurasians and derived, who aparently suffered a greater bottleneck than the rest have both clades in non-anecdotical ammounts.
Neanderthal DNA
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Of all molluscan clades, only the gastropods undergo torsion.
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In contrast, A. collina-4x and its suspected backcross plants show homeologous gene copies: sequences from the same tetraploid individual plant are placed in both diploid clades.
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Instead, species that differ in timing of gamete release tend to constitute genetically distinct clades.
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These clades are labeled together with four diverse MSY1 codes from each lineage to indicate the diagnostic minisatellite structures.
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Only two clades of nonmammalian cynodont are known from the Lower Jurassic: tritylodontids and tritheledontids.
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The grouping of the Pink-headed duck as the sister-taxon of the Red-crested pochard Netta rufina (both species down at the base of Aythyini within the stem pochard clade) led Livezey to argue that the two should be regarded as congeneric.
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There are three known cases of independent evolution of a nonfluorescent color: in Hydrozoa and within anthozoan clades A and B.
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Terminal servers such as the Cyclades ACS48 remain a reasonable investment and provide out-of-band access and reliability that IPMI does not quite deliver.
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A clade is a parent and * all* of its descendents.
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As you see from the little cladogram I’ve knocked up here [click for larger version], bat diphyly and archontan monophyly makes it at least possible – and phylogenetically parsimonious – that flight was primitive for the megabat-primate clade, or in other words that primates are secondarily flightless.
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I've also recently posted regarding the supraordinal clade euarchontaglires and the Asian origin of primates at Sinanthropus
We flightless primates
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With a number of methods a topology in which the grasses clade is basal within the angiosperm group was found with high bootstrap support.
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If correct, this diphyletic take on mangabey affinities would mean that geladas, baboons, drills and mandrills do not form a clade of ‘dog-faced cercopithecids’ as conventionally thought.
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There are four clades that meet both of these criteria (74.2% - 99.9% nucleotide identity): the Sendai clade, the human parainfluenza-3 clade, the measles clade, and the phocine/canine distemper clade.
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Boas and pythons still possess vestigial remnants of hind limbs, called "anal claws," which indicate that they are basal members of the ophidian clade.
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Understanding Evolution: A clade is a grouping that includes a common ancestor and all the descendents (living and extinct) of that ancestor … Clades are nested within one another — they form a nested hierarchy.
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The position of the annulus is a key character used to differentiate lineages within the clade.
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Immense clades come and go without leaving any survivors, and these few weirdos keep chugging along, sometimes in refugia (tuatara) and sometimes not (horseshoe crabs).
Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’?
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Clade strengths were evaluated by analyzing 250 bootstrap replicates with the PROML program based on a model comprising one invariable plus four categories.
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You attempted to use Reptilia and Aves as an counter example but you failed because Reptilia is not a clade.
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A strict consensus of these cladograms yielded eight taxa resolved at the base of the cladogram and 18 taxa partly resolved in four subclades, but the majority of taxa were unresolved.
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Telmatosaurus is placed as the basal hadrosaurid, the sister taxon to the Lambeosaurinae-Hadrosaurinae clade.
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These taxa together form a paraphyletic group at the base of the clade of biramous arthropods.
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Sometimes called bay ducks, pochards – the tribe Aythyini – are one of four clades that together make up Anatinae, the true duck group (the other anatine clades are Malacorhynchini [pink-eared ducks], Anatini [surface-feeding ducks] and Mergini [seaducks]).
The Madagascar pochard returns
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A clade is a common ancestor and all its descendents.
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Plotted on the abscissa of the graph are the incompatibility values or the proportions of informative sites incompatible with the particular clade in the set of artificially generated sequences.
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Her data supported a tree topology in which Coccyzus is nested within a single clade comprising all of the parasitic cuckoos.
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We might use phylogeny to support a proposed cladistic classification, but a clade is * defined* as an organism and all its descendents.
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Early metazoan evolution, prior to the emergence of the clade that gave rise to crown taxa, involved a number of innovations.
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The great and long track from Oldnej to Unapool, (both thefe places incladed) b called bj the general name of Sliih-a - chililh* \ there are'feveral farms on it f, and fafe harbours alfo.
The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes
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There are also a number of differences, however, perhaps most important of which is the observation of a clade consisting of the gastrotrichs plus platyheminthes that is basal to all other lophotrochozoan taxa.
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Even if the Spanish clade may result from a gradual expansion of the species from eastern France to Spain, both Spanish and Italian populations may represent long-term isolates, explaining their relatively high level of endemism
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I was going to direct ID guy's attention to Figure 8 in Knox's paper, that shows how clades can be nested by forming increasingly inclusive monophyletic groups.
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Harshman ...) within crown-Bufonidae, and outside the enormous clade that includes all of the more familiar, more, err, 'toady'-looking toads.
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The Boom Boom Satellites - Anthem this Tokyo based electro-pop duo has been around since the early 90's, and seemed to somehow fenagle their way into getting a large slice of the musical share for the movie (almost a third of the soundtrack) along the likes of the Basement Jaxx, T. Raumschmiere et al. the sound is familiar to anyone who's been near a radio tuned into rock station anytime in the last five years; plenty of echoed, synthy sounds that may conjure up aural images of Linkin Bizkit or anyone else from that clade of sound-alike angsty bands. so why bother, you ask? but soft, dear reader - keep in mind their work is in the "file under J-pop category," meaning it takes something familiar and annoying and somehow makes it both listenable and more interesting.
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The trilobites comprise a major class-level clade of extinct marine arthropods characterized by calcareous, multisclerite, dorsal exoskeletons.
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The temporal distribution of first appearances of sinistral clades as documented by fossils generally differs from that of clades with a labral tooth.
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Migratory behavior appears to have evolved multiple times in Catharus, so the species mentioned above do not constitute a monophyletic clade.
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Warren et al. estimated rates of divergence for both ND3 and cytochrome b for two clades of Indian Ocean sunbirds using estimates of island age.
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Fossils are often not ancestors of extant taxa, but instead may be extinct sister groups to modern taxa or clades.
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Naxos boasts one of the finest views in the Cyclades, the breathtaking panorama of the Potamia valley.
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The monilophytes refers to the monophyletic clade of horsetails and ferns.
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Because all three main clades of bilaterian animals express a let-7 RNA that is temporally regulated, but cnidarian, poriferan and all non-animal species that we analysed do not express a detectable let-7 RNA, we propose that the gene evolved after the divergence of diploblastic and bilaterian animals
Teach the Controversy
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Pterosaurs are in fact a sister group of crocodilians and dinosaurs (including birds) in the archosaur clade.
Darwinopterus, the New Flying Reptile
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Most importantly, the phylogenetic analysis results in a topology that places hornworts as a sister group to the vascular plants and mosses as the sister clade to the hornwort-tracheophyte group.
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Neque diutius Numidae resistere quivissent, ni pedites cum equitibus permixti magnam cladem in congressu facerent; [318] quibus illi freti, non uti equestri proelio solet, sequi, dein cedere, sed adversis equis concurrere, implicare ac perturbare aciem; ita expeditis peditibus suis hostes paene victos dare.
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So the monophylic clade of metazoa contains only multicellular liveforms, this also defines the mentioned outgroups of taxa from protozoa and prokaryota.
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The seriema-hoatzin clade was closely allied with a cuckoo-turaco clade.
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The persistent lack of resolution of the relationships of the three major clades of coelomate animals, for example, arguably reflects rapid diversification of the "Cambrian Explosion.
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In the morelloid clade, the concentrations of these compounds decrease dramatically as fruit matures, while in many members of the spiny solanums, concentrations remain high at fruit ripeness.
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It is part of a small group of Aegean islands that took the name Cyclades, from the Greek "cyclos" (circle) because the islands form a circle around Delos, observed as the jewel in the crown of the archipelago.
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If so-called compsognathids – all of them relatively small, ecologically and morphologically generalized, long-limbed, long-tailed theropods that hunt small vertebrate prey – are not a clade but are actually scattered about the base of the coelurosaur family tree, this likely indicates that this ecotype was the ancestral one for coelurosaurs.
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An attentive traveller may convince himself by his own eyes that the Cyclades and the Sporades were once part of the continent of
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The dorsal siphuncles of the Clymeniida tend to be larger than the ventral siphuncles of other ammonoid clades.
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ODECVS Argolicum, quin puppim flectis, Vlixes, auribus ut nostros possis agnoscere cantus? nam nemo haec umquam est transuectus caerula cursu, quin prius adstiterit uocum dulcedine captus, post, uariis auido satiatus pectore Musis, 5 doctior ad patrias lapsus peruenerit oras. nos graue certamen belli clademque tenemus
Translations from the Greek From the Odyssey
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The more diverse DDO clades, which were entirely wiped out, included a broad range of colony sizes-some very robust forms as well as others with complex branching and long stipes, but also many species with quite diminutive colonies.
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The rocks exposed in the central Aegean region, in the area of the Cyclades, are generally Alpine metamorphic rocks and Miocene granites, which were unroofed by extension and erosion, being exhumed by the end of the Miocene.
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We had to prune off the clade that includes all parasitic species from the tree before the analysis.
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More recently, Mayr et al. (2003) found Leptosomus to group with frogmouths in the 'nightbird' + apodiform clade, Ericson et al. (2006) found Leptosomus to be outside of a land bird clade that includes owls, mousebirds, 'core coraciiforms', trogons and piciforms (woodpeckers and kin), and Hackett et al. (2008) found Leptosomus to be close to (but outside of) a clade that includes trogons, piciforms and 'core coraciiforms'.
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Previous paleontological and molecular evidence has indicated that cetaceans and artiodactyls constitute a natural clade within the subclass Eutheria.
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Vertebrates as a clade might not exist, but motile bilaterally symmetrical organisms seem plausible, perhaps even with sensory organs housed in a bony head.
A Good Saturday Evening Flick
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Even the dentally unimaginative dinosaur clades often did better than this.
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The 13 living genera are relicts of this earlier diversification and represent one of the four major clades of placental mammals.
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Technical details of the molar cusps and roots, and the tooth count, better match those of dryolestoids more than docodonts, and in fact Reigitherium appears particularly closely related to the Palaeocene dryolestoid Peligrotherium, with both being united by Rougier et al. (2003) in the dryolestoid clade Reigitheriidae.
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Zeledonia is a nine-primaried oscine that is not closely allied to Basileuterus or to any other genus within the typical parulid clade.
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The island of Delos (Greek: δήλος, Dhilos), isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece.
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Marriages between members of clades with more than two sexes (such as the Genen Keymales) are known as trigamous, quadrigamous, and so on.
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They name this clade Pegasoferae, a name derived by uniting Pegasus (in their view a sort of bat-perissodactyl combination) with Ferae (the name they use for the carnivoran + pangolin clade).
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The topologies of each of these eight cladograms were identical to the MMPC, except that the relative position of Proconsul varied across the set creating a polytomy between Proconsul and the two hominoid clades.
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To evaluate clade support, bootstrap and jackknife analyses were performed in PAUP * using a full heuristic search with 1000 replicates, simple addition sequence, and TBR branch-swapping.
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Therefore, improved sampling and a better understanding of the morphology of fossils with affinities to these families are necessary to understand the origin and evolution of the heterosporous fern clade.
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They steer to sea; one might think that the Cyclades were uptorn and floated on the main, or that lofty mountains clashed with mountains, so mightily do their crews urge on the turreted ships.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Several involve retaining the binomial name (genus, species: Homo sapiens) but formatting it differently to distinguish from clade names, so that human beings might become homosapiens in the Hominid clade.
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Moreover they locate the islands interspersed amid the waves, both the greater and also the lesser islands, called Cyclades or
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths
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Hox evidence has also placed dicyemid mesozoans in the clade.
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Because all three main clades of bilaterian animals express a let-7 RNA that is temporally regulated, but cnidarian, poriferan and all non-animal species that we analysed do not express a detectable let-7 RNA, we propose that the gene evolved after the divergence of diploblastic and bilaterian animals
Teach the Controversy
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According to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG), the Brazil nut family belongs to the order Ericales which is basal to the euasterid clade.
Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World
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Included in this clade are three very different-looking phyla - the echinoderms, hemichordates and chordates.
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There are two additional subfamilies of the Picidae, Picumninae, which is the sister group of the true woodpeckers, and Jynginae (wrynecks), which is sister to the Picinae-Picumninae clade.
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The berries in the most derived clade are all morphologically similar, with two carpels, axile placentation and mostly lenticular seeds.
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The first group is identical to the commelinoid group of monocotyledons identified as a monophyletic clade in cladograms using the rbcL gene.
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The same mode of increase has been adopted independently in phylogenetically distinct clades.
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Our cladistic analysis confirms that the taxa included form a solid clade based on the apomorphic presence of a diaresis on the exopod of the uropod.
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True feathers, so far as we know, were restricted to maniraptorans (the theropod clade that includes oviraptors, dromaeosaurs and birds), but simpler, filament-like integumentary structures appear to have evolved much earlier within theropod history, probably at or around the base of Coelurosauria.
Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’
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Truebella, a clade of peculiar little toads, named in 1995 in honour of anuran expert
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However, in a phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Jamaican fruit bat it appeared more closely related to cetferungulates, a clade including Cetacea, Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, and Carnivora.
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Palaeotis, a small ratite argued by some to be a stem rhea, has more recently been found to be outside of the clade that includes rheas, ostriches, cassowaries and emus.
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He points out that all of the branches or groups technically called clades known to have primitively eusocial species—aculeate wasps, halictine and xylocopine bees, sponge-nesting shrimp, termopsid termites, colonial aphids and thrips, ambrosia beetles, and naked mole rats—rely on colonies that build and occupy defensible nests.
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Rather they find a trichotomy of ducks, geese, and a Cereopsis-Cnemiornis clade.
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Aside from the intrinsic fascination for knowing the antiquity of a given species or clade, accurate date estimation is important for advancing evolutionary theory.
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Taxonomy reveals a great deal about the evolutionary relationships among organisms. A clade is a taxonomic unit whose members are derived from a common ancestor.
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With clades the ancestry is assumed depending on shared characteristic traits.
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Within the anthophyte clade, there is significant homoplasy in the distribution of bisexual reproductive structures.
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In a study of osteological and soft-tissue characters, Mayr & Clarke (2003) also found gruiforms to be polyphyletic: rails, trumpeters and cranes (referred to from hereon as the ‘gruiform core’) were one of the most basal groups within Neoaves, bustards were without close relatives, and seriemas formed a clade with … .. hoatzins.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin
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Most clades expand from the larger, more diverse biota.
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The second clade includes arthropods and other molting animals: tardigrades, onychophorans, nematodes, nematomorphans, kinorhynchs, and priapulans.
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The vertical lines represent the actual time ranges of equid genera or clades.
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Between the Cyclades and Asia Minor lie the Sporades, which islands, as the name implies, are sown irregularly over that portion of the Aegean.
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Studies generally agree that there are three major agamid clades: the Australo-papuan clade (Amphibolurinae), the southern Asian clade (Draconinae), and the African-west Asian clade (Agaminae).
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence
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Parsimony analyses recover a paraphyletic Rotifera, where a bdelloid rotifer and acanthocephalans form a monophyletic clade.
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We would make our home of one of the Cyclades, and there in myrtle-groves, amidst perpetual spring, fanned by the wholesome sea-breezes -- we would live long years in beatific union -- Was there such a thing as death in the world?
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COS, or COOS, one of the islands called the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, famous for being the birth-place of Apelles; now _Stan Co_.
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Was survival of the various clades through various biotic crises just a matter of luck?
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If we posit descent along uncrossed lines, it forms a nested hierarchy based on clades, that is, each ancestor grouped with all of its descendents.
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His close association of entoprocts and ectoprocts is not supported by molecular data although both groups fall within the Lophotrochozoa clade.
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Graniferous tracheary elements are found in the haustoria of several unrelated members of the clade.
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Both clades, together with H. bastetanum, form a trichotomy that it is separate from H. suaveolens.
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Professor R.J. Tarrant points out, the only meaning that can be attached to _quasque alias gentes barbarus Hister habet_ is 'the other people that live in the Danube'; he compares _Her_ VI 135-36 'prodidit illa patrem; rapui de clade Thoanta./deseruit Colchos; me mea Lemnos habet' and _Aen_ VI 362 (Palinurus speaking) 'nunc me fluctus habet'.
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While unfortunately few phylogenetic studies include both species together, a comprehensive recent DNA-based phylogeny found the two to be well apart, with Polyboroides down with Old World vultures and honey buzzards, while Geranospiza was in the buteonine clade that also includes Buteo (of course) and Leucopternus (Lerner et al. 2005).
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My first stop was the island of Syros, part of the group of islands know as the Cyclades close to Athens coast.
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Accordingly, we may speculate that even the small members of the clade must prefer a habitat near the edge of the vegetated zone, with adequate light.
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Pettigrew et al. (1989) further argued that colugos (aka flying lemurs, or dermopterans) were also part of the megabat-primate clade, and essentially late-surviving relics which resembled the common ancestor of the megabat-primate clade.
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This section covers almost all of the Mollusca except the three huge clades of advanced mollusks: Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, and Gastropoda.
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However, the degree of dimorphism in some clades of mammals, including perissodactyls, does not correlate with the degree of polygyny.
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Both the water ferns and Ceratopteris occur in clades with terrestrial ferns and the aquatic habit appears to be derived in these lineages.
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This is the first attempt to document fully the nomenclatural history of a clade with the intent of proposing a coherent nomenclatural system to replace the traditional rank-based nomenclature.
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In a study of osteological and soft-tissue characters, Mayr & Clarke (2003) also found gruiforms to be polyphyletic: rails, trumpeters and cranes (referred to from hereon as the ‘gruiform core’) were one of the most basal groups within Neoaves, bustards were without close relatives, and seriemas formed a clade with … .. hoatzins.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin
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Mackerel are members of the scombrid fish clade that includes tuna and bonitos and possess a forked tail.
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All trees, both including and excluding gapped regions, found reciprocally monophyletic lineages for M. edulis and M. trossulus, with Baltic alleles falling unambiguously in both the M. edulis and M. trossulus clades.
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The characters that make this species distinct from the members of the C. sampsoni clade are primarily the thin-plated calyx and basal plates, which are higher than wide.
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Using a functional definition, with Gastropoda defined solely by the presence of torsion, this is the clade that represents the class as defined by Cuvier.
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The existence of a clade formed by the Spanish species is supported also by biogeographical data, so that these species are geographically isolated from other species.
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Was survival of the various clades through various biotic crises just a matter of luck?
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If we look at the definition of clade - A clade is a group, consisting of a single organism and all of its descendants. - my premise is correct as aves are a descendent of reptiles - that is if we go by the cladogram …
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Different gruiforms were found to belong to both groups; mesites, kagus and sunbitterns were metavians close to owlet nightjars, grebes and sandgrouse; seriemas and bustards were coronavians without close relatives; while the gruiform core was part of a coronavian clade that included divers, cuckoos, turacos, tubenosed seabirds, storks, herons, penguins and pelicans.
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The island of Delos (Greek: Δήλος, IPA: [ˈðilo̞s]), isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece.
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Among these clades are such diverse forms as arawanas, knifefishes, mormyrids, eels, tarpon, and herring.
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Both the frenulate pogonophoran clade and the vestimentiferan clade have been referred to as phyla, classes within the Annelida, classes within the Pogonophora, and subclasses within class Pogonophora within the Annelida.
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Taverna Kyclades in Astoria, Queens has a nice outdoor dining area and specializes in fresh seafood cooked in Mediterranean/Greek style.
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However, molecular studies have consistently found mangabeys to be diphyletic, with the six terrestrial mangabey species forming a clade with drills and mandrills (and with macaques too in some studies), and the two arboreal mangabeys forming a clade with baboons and geladas.
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By definition, a clade is a group composed of a single ancestor and all its descendants.
A New Book
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Previous paleontological and molecular evidence has indicated that cetaceans and artiodactyls constitute a natural clade within the subclass Eutheria.
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The Cyclades is a group of islands in the South Aegean Sea which forms a department of which country?
August 2007
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You may also have noticed that the birds do not have their own box in the cladogram; this is because they are one subgroup of the diapsids, a clade which includes dinosaurs, snakes, and most reptiles.
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Species in the two primary clades in the genus tend to be found in different parts of North America.
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Note 28: Note that at the time of publication, less than one-third of the Greek-speaking population lived within the borders of the new Greek state, which was then comprised of the Peloponnese, Roumeli, Attica, Evvoia, and the islands of the Western Aegean (Cyclades and Sporades).
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The latter conclusion is supported by the phylogeography (relationship between genetic identity and geographic distribution) of the '' Paranoplocephala arctica '' species complex, a cestode parasite of '' Dicrostonyx '' spp., indicating that two subclades probably survived the LGM with their host in the Canadian High Arctic [7].
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
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All these taxa are relevant to the history of the conquest of land by vertebrates because they are outside the large clades of extant tetrapods (Apoda, Caudata, Anura, Mammalia, Testudines, Sauria).
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Many of the genera in this large clade contain stone cells, accretions of sclerenchyma that occur in the fleshy part of the berry.
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When I went to the Cyclades the ferry before us sank and 100 people died and we were stuck in Piraeus, sleeping on the floor of the ferry lounge, for two days and nights …
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In all cases, the two chelicerate species form a clade which is quite distinct from a Hexapoda / Crustacea clade.
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Therefore, we cannot support Durham's derivation of New World lunulate clades from an ancestor in common with protoscutellids, either.
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Among extant vertebrates, turtles are an ideal clade to lead the transition from a rank-based nomenclatural system to a rank-free nomenclatural system that is based on phylogenetically defined clade names.
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Sinistral clades also did not originate in the less planktonically productive insular Indo-West Pacific and Caribbean.
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Even, the prime suspect Seh Deang has been coming out now and then to predict the sabotages and as recently, as yesterday mentioning about black-claded "ronin" warriors fighting along side the red shirts.
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Gregory, Fortunatus, and the author of the Gesta Francorum, that the battle was fought in campo Vocladensi, on the banks of the
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