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Meaning of "polyphyletic"
polyphyletic (adjective) - A term used in biology to describe a group of organisms that have multiple evolutionary origins, not sharing a common ancestor
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- Having multiple ancestral sources; referring to a taxon that does not contain the most recent common ancestor of its members.
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The diploporitans likely represent a polyphyletic group.
And this is from a polyphyletic group of fungi like cordyceps.
Lumping them would result in a polyphyletic group.
This family is polyphyletic and will be split into two groups.
We do not know if the mammals are monophyletic or polyphyletic.
The genus is probably polyphyletic or paraphyletic.
Molecular phylogenetic studies suggest the genus is polyphyletic.
Testate amoebae are a polyphyletic assemblage.
Recent genetic data suggest this genus to be possibly polyphyletic.
The arrangement of the members of a polyphyletic group is called a polyphyly.
Some phylogenetic studies of lydekkerinids have found them to be polyphyletic.
Note that the genus is polyphyletic and needs to be redefined.
However hybrid speciation arguably leads to polyphyletic species.
It is thus a polyphyletic grouping.
Recent work suggests that the tribe is polyphyletic.
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Astyanax is a polyphyletic taxon with richness of species and wide geographic distribution.
The cluster is probably polyphyletic.
A polyphyletic taxon is defined as one that does not include the common ancestor of.
Both groups appear to be polyphyletic.
A polyphyletic taxon does not contain the most recent common ancestor of all its members.
This genus is polyphyletic.
Phylogenetic analyses suggest that the genus as currently circumscribed is polyphyletic.
It is considered a polyphyletic group.
Our results support the hypothesis that sockeye and kokanee are polyphyletic.
They are both polyphyletic.
This means that the secotioid and also the gasteroid fungi are polyphyletic.
Several of these genera may be polyphyletic and may need further division.
Gasteroid fungi consist of several clades of basidiomycota with distinct evolutionary origins polyphyletic group.
Studies with phylogenetic analyzes have shown antrodia as a polyphyletic genus with wide morphological variation.
Pubescens is polyphyletic and comes from a sister lineage of Mesotrichia.
Now known to be polyphyletic.
Various morphological and molecular analyses indicated that Sophoreae as traditionally circumscribed was polyphyletic.
It is probably polyphyletic.
Parsimony analyses of these sequences suggest that the Polyporaceae are polyphyletic.
It is concluded that the root is of polyphyletic origin within the Lycopsida.
The type genus Eriococcus has been shown to be polyphyletic.
Liver fluke is a collective name of a polyphyletic group of parasitic trematodes under the phylum Platyhelminthes.
Banksia appear to be polyphyletic.
Flightless birds are polyphyletic because they independently (in parallel) lost the ability to fly.
Exostema is probably polyphyletic.
They are a polyphyletic group of organisms that share characteristics, rather than sharing a single common ancestor.
Molecular phylogenetic analysis showed that the genus is polyphyletic and needs to be redefined.
The Clostridia are a highly polyphyletic class of Firmicutes, including Clostridium and other similar genera.
Such a sequence of events could explain the apparent polyphyletic formation of this group.
The polyphyletic genus has been estimated to contain over 100 species.
Phylogenetic analyses carried out using molecular data have demonstrated the polyphyletic nature of vriesea.
Among other things, he demonstrated the polyphyletic nature of the now-obsolete Rugaspidiotini using morphology.
The Spilomelinae are believed to be polyphyletic.
Tetraria, currently, is polyphyletic and in need of taxonomic revision.
Phylogenetic analyses show that Sistotrema is a polyphyletic genus.
