How to Use phylogenetic in a Sentence

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• The team used the phylogenetic trees to estimate how long ago each branch of the tree split off from the others.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2018
• But non-primate species clustered on other branches of the phylogenetic tree did well too.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 25 Jan. 2022
• Microbiologists use this record, known as the phylogenetic tree, to determine how the virus has evolved.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 18 May 2020
• The findings, the release said, make important amendments to the early phylogenetic tree and the understanding of how life developed.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
• Plots showing the diversity of both the phylogenetic tree and tooth shapes show two distinct drops, around 34 million and 31 million years ago, reflecting these back-to-back disasters.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 2 Nov. 2021
• Ballesteros and others have been sequencing horseshoe crabs for some time, allowing for the creation of what's known as a phylogenetic dataset, a fancy way of saying a family tree.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2019
• Habitat losses had led to entire branches of the tree of life being pruned away — meaning phylogenetic diversity took a major hit.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2019
• Using these phylogenetic principles, some researchers have dated many common words as far back as 9000 years ago.
  — Elizabeth Norton, WIRED, 7 May 2013
• By comparing this genetic information to more recent samples, the team pieced together a phylogenetic tree that traces the history of the virus over the past few centuries.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2016
• These were then sequenced and analyzed in Naylor’s lab, and compared to create a phylogenetic tree, a genetic map of the walking shark genus, Hemiscyllium.
  — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
• Using these little changes, researchers can draw up phylogenetic trees, much like family trees.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 9 Mar. 2020
• Since then scientists have not been able to determine with certainty whether Tully’s Monster had something like a backbone or where the creature fits on the phylogenetic family tree.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2023
• The researchers employed phylogenetic analysis to trace back the genetic history of the spiders and establish a rough family tree for them.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2018
• Through phylogenetic analysis — evaluating the evolutionary pathways of how new species take shape — the scientists could then determine how such changes might be linked to increases in body size.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 11 May 2023
• Further analysis of its morphological and phylogenetic features revealed that the insect likely lived underground and was a close ancestor of a type of modern army ant from Africa and Asia, known as the Dorylus.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• By comparing slight differences in the number and height of spectral peaks, a computer could correctly slot eggshell samples from more than a dozen dinosaurs, including early birds, onto a phylogenetic tree.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 8 Oct. 2019
• To determine the relation, UAB said researchers performed a phylogenetic analysis to compare the features of different turtle species to see how closely, or distantly, related the species could be.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 7 Jan. 2020
• Collins points out that medievalists studying copying errors in manuscripts have long used the same phylogenetic programs that evolutionary biologists use to study how DNA mutations appear over time.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• The scientists sank their teeth into some math modeling and phylogenetic bracketing.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2020
• Dr Barrios and her collaborators used these data to construct a phylogenetic tree, or a family genetics tree.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• Steppe by steppe That branching seems to have been part of a Y. pestis population explosion around 4,000 years ago, which is when phylogenetic analysis of ancient bacterial genomes suggests that plague strains diversified rapidly.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
• The team combined the new fossil evidence with previously collected genetic data from living birds to update the phylogenetic tree of bird evolution.
  — Carolyn Gramling, Science | AAAS, 10 July 2017
• But, Neanderthals are far closer to modern humans, as would be likely expected from the phylogenetic relationship.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2011
• But the researchers’ multiple lines of morphological and phylogenetic evidence offer strong support for their claims, according to Dr. Mah.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• But horizontal gene transfer is most frequent among microbes—especially our newfound friends, archaea—and HGT appears to generate a large share of the phylogenetic interconnections that make life such a tangled tree.
  — David P. Barash, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• The team’s phylogenetic analysis, which indicates evolutionary relationships, placed the species within the vampyropod side of the evolutionary tree, Whalen said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
• And according to a phylogenetic tree mapping the evolutionary relationship between the genomes, one of the nine major genotypes circulating today was the product of an ancient recombination between two strains of the hepatitis B virus.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
• Any phylogenetic tree is a hypothesis, subject to testing and change with additional analysis and discovery.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 15 May 2017
• According to Simonin and Roddy, phylogenetic evidence shows that changes in genome size and the relevant physiological traits occurred together.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2019
• After performing an phylogenetic analysis, Kammerer concluded that Bulbasaurus was an early ancestor of a family of dicynodonts called geikiids, which are known for their flashy, keratinous noses.
  — Ian Graber-Stiehl, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024