Examples of 'monophyletic' in a sentence
Meaning of "monophyletic"
Monophyletic is used as an adjective in biology to describe a group of organisms that consists of an ancestral species and all its descendants
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- Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
- Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
- Descending from a single ancestral species.
- Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
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Monophyletic groups are in black and paraphyletics in blue.
The equivalent monophyletic clade are the simians.
He found that the elasmotheres were a monophyletic group.
Psydrax was shown to be monophyletic in a molecular phylogenetic study.
However the subgenera do not appear to be monophyletic.
The subfamily is recognized as monophyletic as all genera included in it.
These groups can equivalently be called monophyletic.
The family may not be monophyletic as currently defined.
All four of these genera are currently monophyletic.
A monophyletic group is also called a clade.
This tribe is the only monophyletic one.
But it is a monophyletic grouping that is supported by molecular data.
It was therefore split into two monophyletic genera.
Only monophyletic groups are recognised.
Abietis is considered to arise from a monophyletic group.
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Boidinia is probably not monophyletic and needs taxonomical redefinition.
The taxa in virology are not necessarily monophyletic.
The taxon was established as a monophyletic group based on molecular evidence.
Zosteraceae has long been accepted by taxonomists as monophyletic.
Each was split into monophyletic genera.
Determine if different observed lure morphologies are monophyletic.
Contains two monophyletic genera.
Most classification systems consider the genus to be monophyletic.
The arrangement of the members of a monophyletic group is called a monophyly.
Workers have established that this subfamily is monophyletic.
Jays are not a monophyletic group.
It is uncertain whether the phylum is monophyletic.
A taxon is monophyletic if it contains all the descendants of a common ancestor.
The genera do not form a monophyletic assemblage.
This section represents a natural group and are taxonomically monophyletic.
The catfish are a monophyletic group.
It is not entirely clear that this superfamily is monophyletic.
Rhinobatiformes are seen as a monophyletic group by some authors and as paraphyletic by others.
Nereididae are currently considered a monophyletic taxon.
The family culicidae is monophyletic and includes all species of mosquitoes.
Recent cladistic analyses suggest that it is monophyletic or nearly so.
Ascomycota is a monophyletic group it contains all descendants of one common ancestor.
The intron phylogenies produced monophyletic species.
It is a monophyletic group and therefore contains all descendents of a common ancestor.
We do not know if the mammals are monophyletic or polyphyletic.
Monophyletic group containing an ancestral taxon and all of its descendants.
The core eudicots are a monophyletic group.
The rosids are monophyletic based upon evidence found by molecular phylogenetic analysis.
Meristogenys on its own is a monophyletic group.
The extant families are monophyletic according to phylogenetic molecular analysis.
They also seem not to form a monophyletic group.
It is a monophyletic group.
Several of these groups are not monophyletic.
Present day embryophytes form a monophyletic group called the hemitracheophytes.
It is not known whether these groups are both monophyletic.
