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sister taxon - This phrase is commonly used in biology to refer to a taxonomic group that shares a common ancestor with another group, indicating a close evolutionary relationship

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sister taxon
It is the sister taxon to the rest of its family.
Wertheimeria is considered to be the sister taxon to all other doradids.
It is the sister taxon to the family Procolophonidae.
This fish has been placed as the sister taxon to all other doradids.
It is the sister taxon to all other species of Eucerini.
It was found to be the sister taxon of Eolambia.
It is the sister taxon to the clade which includes the Cichlasomatini and Heroini.
Carinodens is thus regarded as a sister taxon of Globidens.
It is the sister taxon of Coronamedusae.
A recent phylogenetic study finds it to be the sister taxon to Reigitherium.
It is the sister taxon of Tachymenis.
A recently phylogenetic study found it to be the sister taxon of Palaeoxonodon.
It was the sister taxon to Henodus.
The outcome of the phylogenetic analysis placed Blasisaurus as the sister taxon to Arenysaurus.
It is probably the sister taxon of Leptodactylus validus.

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Recent analyses suggest Paxillosida may be a sister taxon of Asterina.
It is a sister taxon of Azendohsaurus.
In fact Chimaerasuchus has been found to be the sister taxon of Sphagesaurus.
It is a sister taxon of Angelosaurus.
Nuclear DNA sequence analysis has indicated that it is a sister taxon to Rhagomys.
Megophryidae is a sister taxon to Pelobatidae.
Their sister taxon is the clade comprising the Leiuperinae and Paratelmatobiinae.
Mnesarchaeoidea constitutes the living sister taxon to the superfamily Hepialoidea.
Its sister taxon is Celsiella.
Several phylogenetic analyses place it as the sister taxon or closest relative of Aetosauria.
Audeti is a sister taxon to Prenocephale prenes and Wanannosaurus.
The Rhinophrynidae are the sister taxon of the Pipidae.
Their sister taxon is Ramanella.
They found the Troodontidae to be to sister taxon of the Dromaeosauridae.
Its sister taxon is Pristimantis.
An older analysis of DNA material placed it as sister taxon with Pouteria myrsinoides.
Its sister taxon is Petropedetes.
Two separate studies have found Animantarx to be the sister taxon of Edmontonia within Nodosauridae.
Their sister taxon is Nyctixalus.
Cosmochlaina, a closely related sister taxon.
Dactylosaurus is the sister taxon to Anarosaurus and Serpianosaurus.
Archelosauria, an alternative clade that places turtles as sister taxon to archosaurs.
Whether their sister taxon is the Dendrobatoidea or Alsodidae is still under debate.
In the initial analysis, it was shown to be the sister taxon of the Carcharodontosauridae.
The dog forms a sister taxon with Eurasian gray wolves but not North American wolves.
As of recently, the genus Dakotaraptor has been classified as the sister taxon to Dromaeosaurus.
Most scholars consider Leotiomycetes a sister taxon to Sordariomycetes in the phylogenetic tree of Pezizomycotina.
Most current research, however, places Cetiosaurus outside Neosauropoda as a sister taxon.
They found that Coelodonta was the sister taxon of the species Stephanorhinus hemitoechus.
The sister taxon of Ingerophrynus is Sabahphrynus.
Considered to be monophyletic, a sister taxon to the Gryllidae crickets.
Its sister taxon is either genus Werneria or the clade Werneria+Nectophryne.
Kootenichela appears to be the sister taxon of Worthenella, from cladistic analysis.
Bayesian protocol instead placed it within Galloanserae, specifically as the sister taxon to Galliformes.
The monophyletic Archiacanthocephala are the sister taxon of a clade comprising Eoacanthocephala and the monophyletic Palaeacanthocephala.

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