phylogeny

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The researchers combined these data with a global phylogeny of all plant species and the world's largest database of plant traits, 'TRY'.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

"It describes a new genus and species, but places them in the phylogeny of tardigrades," Nelson told Salon.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024

Quattrini and her collaborators created this map of evolutionary relationships, or phylogeny, using genetic data from 185 species of octocorals.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

"Acoustic communication, broadly distributed along the vertebrate phylogeny, plays a fundamental role in parental care, mate attraction and various other behaviours."

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2022

But in the latter case the characteristic of adaptation is again lost in the course of the phylogeny and alternation of generations follows then without regard to the season.

From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von