phylogenetically
Americanadverb
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"We have bacterial strains that are so phylogenetically close that we thought of them as the same thing, but now we see an enormous difference between their relative abundance in tumors versus the oral cavity."
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
A 2016 article in the paper Frontiers in Neuroscience found that pinniped vocalizations are phylogenetically much closer to humans than to birds, and that they are indeed more vocally flexible than primates.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2022
To test whether commensal spore formation facilitates long-term environmental survival, we exposed a phylogenetically diverse selection of commensal spore-forming and non-spore-forming bacteria and C. difficile to ambient oxygen for increasing periods of time.
From Nature • May 3, 2016
As the catchall term for eukaryotic organisms that are not animals, plants, fungi, or any single phylogenetically related group, it is not surprising that few characteristics are common to all protists.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
Hence Hatteria is the phylogenetically oldest of all living reptiles, an isolated survivor from the Permian period, closely resembling the common ancestor of the Amniotes.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
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