subfamily
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Some hematophages are well-known: For example, vampire bats in the subfamily Desmodontinae helped inspire the legendary monsters that bear their name and no one can forget blood-sucking mosquitoes and leeches.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
Horticulturist Qiang Xu of Huazhong Agricultural University in China and his colleagues recently set out to map the evolutionary journey of the orange subfamily.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023
Importantly, this is the first enzymatic function reported for this subfamily of cytochrome P450.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
Nasa poissoniana belongs to a subfamily of plants called Loasoideae.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2019
Even the Semitic subfamily itself is mainly African, 12 of its 19 surviving languages being confined to Ethiopia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"Previous versions of the sunflower family tree had established the relationships among most of the subfamilies and many tribes, which are equivalent to the main branches of a tree," Ma said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2024
The researchers also detected pupal ‘milk’ in species from each of the five biggest ant subfamilies, suggesting that it could play a part in the evolution of ant social structures.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 2, 2022
Of the 130 kinase types in yeast, 97 belong to the 55 subfamilies of kinases that are found in other eukaryotic organisms.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Today, after several thousand years Noruz is the cornerstone of all the Iranian subfamilies being from northern China or Bulgaria.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
The whole Austronesian language family consists of 959 languages, divided among four subfamilies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
