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
In their newly published study, the researchers describe a new wasp genus Capitojoppa to science, categorising it to the subfamily Ichneumoninae.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2023
Aleocharinae, with about 17,000 known species, is the largest subfamily within the Staphylinidae family.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
It describes a large and geographically widespread subfamily of African languages that make up part of the larger Niger-Congo language family.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
At the one extreme, Mandarin and its relatives, which constitute the Chinese subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family, are distributed continuously from North to South China.
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
Fifty-five subfamilies of kinases evolved before yeast diverged from other eukaryotes, but the tyrosine kinases evolved after yeast diverged.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Columns show pir subfamilies and rows show species.
From Nature ● Jan. 24, 2017
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
Most of the 176 other subfamilies are crammed into West Africa, a small fraction of the entire Niger-Congo range.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
