clade

(klād)

A grouping of organisms made on the basis of their presumed evolutionary history, consisting of a common ancestor and all of its descendants.

[From Greek klados, branch.]

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clade

(kleɪd)

(Biology) biology a group of organisms considered as having evolved from a common ancestor

[C20: from Greek klados branch, shoot]

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clade

(kleɪd)

n.

a group of organisms sharing features that reflect a common ancestor or descent.

[1957; < Greek kládos branch]

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The tree based on tRNAs includes a mix of cloning larvae of Oreaster, QH411 and FM066, and valvatid larvae in one large clade. This large clade has short internal branches with bootstrap support of 88%.

Discovery of Adults Linked to Cloning Oceanic Starfish Larvae (Oreasier, Asteroidea: Echinodermata)

meningitidis urethritis clade previously described (2,4,7) (Figure) because it clustered with available sequences that had only 20-50 SNP differences.

Neonatal Conjunctivitis Caused by Neisseria meningitidis US Urethritis Clade, New York, USA, August 2017

We present herein the history, clinical findings, and macroscopic and histologic lesions caused by a clade C poxvirus in an exotic psittacine breeding colony in southern Brazil.

Identification and phylogenetic analysis of clade C Avipoxvirus in a fowlpox outbreak in exotic psittacines in southern Brazil

Tribe Hypolytreae is better supported as a clade (BS 76%, PP 0.91).

Phylogeny and Systematics of Cyperaceae, the Evolution and Importance of Embryo Morphology

insidiosum isolate from Uruguay was grouped in clade I, together with isolates from Brazil.

Genotyping of South American clinical isolates of Pythium insidiosum based on single nucleotide polymorphism-based multiplex PCR/Genotipagem de isolados clinicos de Pythium insidiosum da America do Sul utilizando polimorfismos de nucleotideo unico baseado em PCR multiplex

The mismatch distribution revealed unimodal distribution in clade 2 and clade 3 whereas clade 1 showed stability with bimodal peak (Fig 3 A, B, C).

GENETIC DIVERSITY OF OCTOPUS MINOR (SASAKI, 1920) INFERRED BY MITOCHONDRIAL NADH DEHYDROGENASE SUBUNIT 2 GENE

To assess the phylogenetic position of the "Cordillera de Los Altos" clade within Phyllopezus, we designed a species tree based on the three mtDNA gene sequences concatenated, using * BEAST [49] in BEAST 2.4.7 [50] under 1,000,000 generations for the mcmc model, visualizing the posterior probability in DensiTree 2.2.6 [51].

Cryptic Diversity in the Neotropical Gecko Genus Phyllopezus Peters, 1878 (Reptilia: Squamata: Phyllodactylidae): A New Species from Paraguay

Individuals from Belgium and Switzerland were connected to the central haplotype by 24 - 31 mutational steps, while the distantly related samples that were placed into the same clade as the central haplotype (clade B) in the phylogenetic inference were up to 28 steps away.

Phoretic or not? Phylogeography of the pseudoscorpion Chernes hahnii (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae)

By accepting a new genus Magallana [type species Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793)] for a clade of Pacific Crassostrea, and by rejecting the genus Talonostrea (Li and Qi, 1994) [type species Talonostrea talonata (Li and Qi, 1994)] for the Pacific sister clade Magallana, WoRMS has effectively rendered the (Atlantic) genus Crassostrea paraphyletic.

THE PROPOSED DROPPING OF THE GENUS CRASSOSTREA FOR ALL PACIFIC CUPPED OYSTERS AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY A NEW GENUS MAGALLANA: A DISSENTING VIEW

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Writ large and small: The mainstreaming of science fiction and fantasy has given writers the freedom to experiment, to change how these stories are told and who gets to stand at the forefront of them

In the Clade II of the phylogenetic tree; all the sequences of H.

Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Hebeloma theobrominum and H. mesophaeum from Western Himalaya