Taxa in a sentence

Overall, they found that very few taxa were shared between bulk-benthos and water samples, with a much greater richness of macroinvertebrate taxa recovered from benthos.

Terminology for taxa Mono-, para- and polyphyletic taxa can be understood based on the shape of the tree (as done above), as well as based on their character states.

The phenomenon appears to have evolved multiple times in multiple taxa such as in the anguilliformes (eels), gobioidei (gobies and cardinalfishes), and tetradontiformes (triggerfishes), along with the other taxa discussed later in the article.

There are no set rules governing the definition of taxa, but the naming and publication of new taxa is governed by sets of rules.

University of California Press: Berkeley. 2009. p. 13 Increasingly, taxonomists try to avoid naming taxa that are not clades; that is, taxa that are not monophyletic.

We therefore tested the consistency and taxa detection efficiency of fusion primers in (1) a one-step and (2) two-step PCR protocol as well as (3) a commercially manufactured Illumina kit using mock communities of known composition.

Scientists studied the metabolic and extinction rates of mollusk taxa because the animals are abundant in the fossil record.

A few taxa experimented with different approaches to scale formation; some were only very weakly calcified and may have mainly been organic in nature.

An estimated 11,000 extinct taxa have been described, although the soft-bodied nature of cephalopods means they are not easily fossilised. citation Cephalopods are found in all the oceans of Earth.

A rare few number of taxa have extended diploid lifecycles, but can be common species.

As comparatively few polychaete taxa have been subject to cladistic analysis, some groups which are usually considered invalid today may eventually be reinstated.

As noted above, a cladogram is the diagrammatic result of a parsimony analysis, which groups taxa on the basis of synapomorphies alone.

Because all animals belonging to Felidae’s sister taxa, Viverridae, have long tails, scientists could infer that this character state represents the ancestral trait.

Cavalier-Smith does not accept the requirement for taxa to be monophyletic ("holophyletic" in his terminology) to be valid.

Cladistic analysis suggests that Parailurus and Ailurus are sister taxa.

Disaster taxa took advantage of the devastated ecosystems and enjoyed a temporary population boom and increase in their territory.

Discontinuities amongst species (or other taxa) are explained as originating gradually through geographical separation and extinction (not saltation).

Environment seeAlso Landscape, south of New Caledonia New Caledonia has many unique taxa, especially birds and plants.

Epizoochorous taxa are limited to herbaceous Rubiaceae (e.g. Galium aparine fruits are densely covered with hooked bristly hairs).

Extinction main Extinction is the process by which a group of taxa or species dies out, reducing biodiversity. citation The moment of extinction is generally considered the death of the last individual of that species.