Paraphyletic in a sentence

A 2013 analysis by Jack L. Conrad, Kirsten Jenkins, Thomas Lehmann, and others did not support Osteolaeminae as a true clade but rather a paraphyletic group consisting of two smaller clades.

Also, paraphyletic groups are involved in evolutionary transitions, the development of the first tetrapods from their ancestors for example.

Although the specific construction of the talus supported a close relationship between artiodactyls and cetaceans, the question of whether the even-toed ungulates are paraphyletic was not answered.

A molecular study undertaken in 2000 found Tropaeolum to be paraphyletic when the other two genera are segregated, so Magallan and Trophaeastrum were reduced to synonyms of Tropaeolum.

A paraphyletic taxon contains its most recent common ancestor, but does not contain all the descendants of that ancestor.

For example, the genera Magnolia and Michelia were shown to be paraphyletic when the remaining four genera of the Magnolioideae are split out.

However, it is now accepted that Anopla are paraphyletic (have given rise to another group), as one order is more closely related to Enopla than to the other order of Anopla.

However, it is now recognized that the Fissipedia is a paraphyletic group and that the pinnipeds were not the sister group to the fissipeds but rather had arisen from among them.

However, tetrapods are descendants of the nearest common ancestor of Actinopterygii and Sarcopterygii, and tetrapods are not in Osteichthyes defined in this way, so the group is paraphyletic.

However, the requirement that taxa be monophyletic - rather than paraphyletic as in the case of the Corvida - is itself part of the cladistic view of Taxonomy, not necessarily followed to an absolute degree by other schools.

Independently-developed traits like these cannot be used to distinguish paraphyletic groups because paraphyly requires the excluded groups to be monophyletic.

In older classification systems, it refers to a highly paraphyletic group of all the green algae within the green plants ( Viridiplantae ) and thus includes about 7,000 species Hoek, C. van den, Mann, D.G. and Jahns, H.M. 1995.

Major " wastebin " families such as the Old World warblers and Old World babblers have turned out to be paraphyletic and are being rearranged.

Not paraphyly * Amphibious fish are polyphyletic, not paraphyletic.

Of the presently recognized suborders, several may be paraphyletic, as well.

One group, consisting of Cleome and related genera, was traditionally included in the Capparaceae but doing so results in a paraphyletic Capparaceae.

Pelycosaurs were descended from the last common ancestor of skinks and humans, so vivipary could be paraphyletic only if the pelycosaurs were part of an excluded monophyletic group.

Talauma) have been found to be paraphyletic.

The change is due to studies suggesting the Myricales, so defined, are paraphyletic to the other two groups.

The Coryphoideae are the most diverse subfamily, and are a paraphyletic group, meaning all members of the group share a common ancestor, but the group does not include all the ancestor's descendants.