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No organism outside this group has a lineage that traces back to the same ancestor (paraphyletic group); however, there might be earlier ancestors that define more inclusive monophyletic groups.
Protein evolution rates are particularly high in the lineage leading from ancestral primates to humans, notes Lahn, “so some of these genes may regulate brain size and behaviour”.
The lineage leading to P. multocida and H. influenzae diverged from other gamma-proteobacteria approximately 270 million years ago [ 50].
The quintet's music was built from the bottom up, assertively declaring jazz's African lineage.
Drosophila melanogaster . Consequently, we chose this resource as a tool to identify genes which may be present in nematodes, but which are absent in C. elegans . A bacteria-like gene present in Meloidogyne and Drosophila , but absent in C. elegans , is unlikely to have experienced HGT, but may rather reflect a gene loss in the C. elegans lineage.