Example sentences for: monophyletic

How can you use “monophyletic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Drancunculus is monophyletic and is sister to all remaining Artemisia species.

  • Beyond that, low bootstrap values prohibit a confident assessment of evolutionary branching order of the arthropod Runx paralogues, and it is not clear whether they are monophyletic (although the position of the crayfish gene suggests a deep duplication event within in the insect/crustacean clade at least).

  • In particular, it was assumed that a natural taxonomic system for microorganisms was feasible [ 2 ] . The goal of a natural taxonomic system is the formation of taxonomic groups that are defined by shared ancestry [ 3 ] . By definition, an ancestor that defines a monophyletic group can only give rise to members of this group.

  • The Artemisia -group sensu Bremer and Humphries [ 2 ] is not monophyletic because three segregate genera Elachanthemum, Stilnolepis , and Kaschgaria are excluded from this clade.

  • Artemisia is not supported as monophyletic, with its species placed in six different clades in the ITS tree (Fig.


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