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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 monotypic genera Lobepomis, Neoderoploa and Terania were excluded from the analysis because they are part of a well-corroborated monophyletic group with the monotypic genus Procleticus, which is the sister-group of the genus Thoreyella (Bernardes et al., 2009).
Review of the neotropical genus Aleixus McDonald (Hemiptera: heteroptera: pentatomidae: procleticini), with description of a new species and cladistic analysis of the tribe procleticini
This calibration point was then employed to estimate times of divergence for various nodes of interest--but with some degree of caution because, strictly speaking, the two subfamilies (sensu OSF2) proved not to be monophyletic, as will be demonstrated below.
Subfamilies Acridinae, Gomphocerinae and Oedipodinae are "fuzzy sets": a proposal for a common African origin
Tunicates in the Molgulidae are a monophyletic group of solitary ascidians (Ascidiacea: Stolidobranchia) that are sister group to the families Styelidae and Pyuridae (1-3).
Molgula pugetiensis is a pacific tailless ascidian within the Roscovita clade of molgulids
In addition, cladistics analysis emphasizes monophyletic groups and thus gives a limited picture of evolution.
Evolution of the chocolate bar: creative approach to teaching: phylogenetic relationships within evolutionary biology
The character suggests that neither Euhyas nor Pelorius is monophyletic. Within Euhyas, the nubicola and ricordii groups are cleaved by the character but both species of the symingtoni group exhibit the feature.
Four osteological synapomorphies within Eleutherodactylus (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae) and their bearing on subgeneric classifications
- To test the relationships within the species complexes of the indigobirds and the paradise whydahs, and whether these two species groups each were monophyletic, we estimated the phylogenetic relationships among all Vidua.
Evolutionary associations of brood parasitic finches (Vidua) and their host species: analyses of mitochondrial DNA restriction sites
The Haplochromis cichlids of Lake Victoria are a monophyletic species flock, collectively known as "furu." They present an ecological and evolutionary problem in that each ecological niche is (was) shared by up to 130 species.
Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria
fortis individuals clustering into one monophyletic lineage.
Phylogeographic Patterns of Microtus fortis (Arvicolinae: Rodentia) in China Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequences
In spite of the limited resolution of the two studies, they do suggest that at least some of Cuatrecasas' segregate genera may not be monophyletic and that evolutionary history of the group in the northern Andes has been more complicated than envisioned by Cuatrecasas (1986).
Tropical and temperate: evolutionary history of paramo flora
When two species are named to circumscribe a clade in the Results and Discussion, it refers to the smallest monophyletic group comprising both species.
Phylogeny and Systematics of Cyperaceae, the Evolution and Importance of Embryo Morphology
Many of the STs in either scheme formed coherent (monophyletic) groups in our phylogeny.
Inaccurate Multilocus Sequence Typing of Acinetobacter baumannii
Results showed that they have resolved three reciprocally monophyletic clades which should be treated as species or minimally, as evolutionarily significant units (ESUs).
Comparative Mitogenomic and Phylogentic Analyses of a Schizothoracine Fish, Gymnodiptychus dybowskii from Two Water Systems in Xinjiang

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