genus

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Genetic analysis confirmed that the organism represents not only a newly identified species but also an entirely new genus.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026

The researchers named the genus Algophthora by combining the word 'alga' with the Greek word 'phthora', meaning 'destruction'.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026

The newly identified species, named Araneothrombium brasiliensis, belongs to a genus first described in Costa Rica in 2017.

From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026

"This discovery is so much more than a simple snapshot of Paranthropus' occurrence: It sheds fresh light on the driving forces behind the evolution of the genus."

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Mangelsdorf said that it descended from the mix of a now-vanished wild ancestor of maize and wild grasses from the genus Tripsacum.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann