subfamily
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The new findings challenge that view, offering strong evidence that the Podonominae subfamily most likely began in the Southern Hemisphere and later expanded worldwide.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
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
Nasa poissoniana belongs to a subfamily of plants called Loasoideae.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2019
Collectively, the Bantu languages constitute only a single, low-order subfamily of the Niger-Congo language family.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The subfamilies are major subdivisions of the family, while the tribes and subtribe can contain one or more of genera, which is the classification level just above the species.
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
The tyrosine kinases evolved before yeast diverged from other eukaryotes, but the other fifty-five subfamilies of kinases evolved after yeast diverged.
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
A controversial minority view is that of the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who groups all Native American languages other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene languages into a single large family, termed Amerind, with about a dozen subfamilies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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