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monophyletic group - In biology, a monophyletic group refers to a taxonomic group that consists of a single ancestor and all its descendants. This term is commonly used in evolutionary biology and phylogenetics to classify organisms based on their evolutionary relationships
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monophyletic group
He found that the elasmotheres were a monophyletic group.
A monophyletic group is also called a clade.
Abietis is considered to arise from a monophyletic group.
Rhinobatiformes are seen as a monophyletic group by some authors and as paraphyletic by others.
These spurred lobelias appear to form a monophyletic group.
Ascomycota is a monophyletic group it contains all descendants of one common ancestor.
The core eudicots are a monophyletic group.
It is a monophyletic group and therefore contains all descendents of a common ancestor.
Meristogenys on its own is a monophyletic group.
Monophyletic group containing an ancestral taxon and all of its descendants.
They also seem not to form a monophyletic group.
It is a monophyletic group.
Amolops has been generally delimited as a monophyletic group.
The hypothesis that these form a monophyletic group has been long debated based on morphological evidence.
They share a common ancestor and are monophyletic group.

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The species form a monophyletic group within the parrot family Psittacidae.
The corbiculate bees are a monophyletic group.
The genus is a monophyletic group and very close genetically to the sister group Symphytum.
The arrangement of the members of a monophyletic group is called a monophyly.
Cavefish are members of a wide range of families and do not form a monophyletic group.
The taxon was established as a monophyletic group based on molecular evidence.
The species currently allocated in moenkhausia are not a monophyletic group.
Jays are not a monophyletic group.
The giant scales are morphologically diverse but they appear to be a monophyletic group.
Present day embryophytes form a monophyletic group called the hemitracheophytes.
It is also not certain that they represent a monophyletic group.
Circinaria forms a monophyletic group and sphaerothallioid species form a monophyletic group within Circinaria.
Cladistic analysis reveals that this family is a monophyletic group.
The Plesiosauridae are a monophyletic group of plesiosaurs.
Most molecular biological evidence supports the view that bats form a natural or monophyletic group.
The catfish are a monophyletic group.
Recent analyses of ribosomal RNA gene sequences have confirmed that it is a monophyletic group.
Four species of Agonimia can form a monophyletic group together with Norrlinia.
Recent phylogenetic studies have supported the Kalotermitidae as a monophyletic group.
The taxon mesosaur is a monophyletic group containing Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis and Mesosaurus tenuidens.
Ituglanis is believed to be a monophyletic group.
This monophyletic group is called Plantae or Archaeplastida.
Pseudopimelodidae is a monophyletic group.
A monophyletic group ( or clade ) includes all the descendants of a common ancestor.
The section Juniperus is a monophyletic group though.
The traditional Malvaceae sensu stricto comprise a very homogeneous and cladistically monophyletic group.
This refers to " a monophyletic group of closely related species all living in the same ecosystem.
Genetic analysis indicates that Vaccinieae is a monophyletic group.
Twelve species belong to the monophyletic group of Vulpes genus of “ true foxes ”.
DNA sequencing appears to indicate that scleractinian corals are a monophyletic group.
The family Sisoridae is recognized as a natural, monophyletic group based on morphological and molecular evidence.
The genus is closely related to the genus Prionochilus and forms a monophyletic group.
It forms a monophyletic group with the genera Afraflacilla, Pseudicius and Festucula.
The section Juniperus is an obvious monophyletic group though.
This monophyletic group comprises Lomisoidea, Aegloidea and Chirostyloidea.

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Monophyletic groups are in black and paraphyletics in blue
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