clad·o·gen·e·sis

(klăd′ə-jĕn′ĭ-sĭs)

An evolutionary process that involves the splitting off or branching of new taxa from an ancestral form.

[Greek klados, branch + -genesis.]

clad′o·ge·net′ic (-jə-nĕt′ĭk) adj.

clad′o·ge·net′i·cal·ly adv.

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cladogenetic

(ˌklædəʊdʒəˈnɛtɪk)

adj

(Biology) relating to cladogenesis

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References in periodicals archive

Another option would be a process of cladogenetic speciation along the Early Pliocene, resulting in two different lineages of Debruijnimys, and unnamed species and D.

First early Pliocene micromammal faunas from the Venta del Moro area (Cabriel Basin, Spain): new data on the Messinian dispersal of Debruijnimys

Wright & Stigall (2013a) divided cladogenetic events in these taxa into two temporal bins.

Phylogenetic paleobiogeography of Late Ordovician Laurentian brachiopods

Phylogeographic approaches reinforce the hypothesis that the area of cladogenetic event was the central-western region of the country (La Rioja and Catamarca provinces) (Martinez et al., 2010b).

Variabilidad cromosomica y notas morfologicas en Graomys griseoflavus (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) de las provincias de Catamarca y Mendoza, Argentina

Dating of the cladogenetic events.--A likelihood ratio test (LRT) was used to test the molecular clock hypothesis, according to Huelsenback & Crandall (1997).

Cave crickets and cave weta (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae) from the southern end of the world: a molecular phylogeny test of biogeographical hypotheses

In recent years, many cladograms have been published for the species of families and genera of Neotropical animals usually with no discussions of the nature of the vicariance events which caused the numerous cladogenetic events underlying the speciation patterns depicted.

Hypotheses to explain the origin of species in Amazonia/Hipoteses para explicar a origem das especies na Amazonia

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