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The genus Clusia is particularly valuable for studying the evolution of photosynthesis because it contains the only known trees that use CAM.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Ecological modeling also indicated that the new species favors a different type of habitat than similar members of the genus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Much of the work focused on the genus Myotis, which includes some species with exceptionally long lifespans.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

He lists a particular genus of moths christened Eucosoma bobana followed by E. cocana, E. dodana, E. fofana and so on, in singalong fashion for 23 more variations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Marie-Laure is not a collector in the way that Dr. Geffard was, an amasser, always looking to scurry down the scales of order, family, genus, species, and subspecies.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

For example, the same bacterial genera showed glyphosate resistance across all three environments.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

In the end, the team used data from about 60 percent of all modern genera of plants.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2024

Using this method, the team sequenced part of the nuclear genomes from about 8000 genera of angiosperms—about 60% of all flowering plants on Earth—and compared 353 of their genes.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024

Future studies will examine more basal families as well as families whose monophyly is dubious, including more genera into the analysis, to advance the phylogenetic understanding of Dermaptera and, ultimately of Polyneoptera and Insecta.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024

According to current estimates, within that short interval, North America lost thirty-four out of its forty-seven genera of large mammals.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Almost 300 biologists have banded together and redrawn the tree of life for flowering plants, enabling a 15-fold increase in the number of genuses represented and highlighting new milestones in diversification.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

There are more than 100 species of Nepenthes, which is one of the many genuses of carnivorous plants found around the world.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2022

Anemone and Aster are large genuses in their own right, filled with poppy- and daisy-like blooms.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

Paleontologists have documented five new genuses of dinosaurs and six previously unknown species since research began in the 1980s in partnership with French scientists.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2010

The children like to hear themselves called genuses, and they go into it like smoke.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie