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monophyletic

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monophyletic [‚män·ə·fə′led·ik]
(evolution)
Pertaining to any form evolved from a single interbreeding population.


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The populations of rodents responsible for the maintenance and transmission of Machupo virus were monophyletic lineages different from C.
It could be retained as a nonclassificatory group, analogous to the group of "animals with wings," but if it is not a monophyletic group, there is no doubt how cladism would deal with it; it presents no philosophical difficulty: the taxonomic category "virus" should be exploded.
Identity of a novel swine hepatitis E virus in Taiwan forming a monophyletic group with Taiwan isolates of human hepatitis E virus.
 
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