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cla·dis·tics

(klə-dĭs′tĭks)

n. (used with a sing. verb)

A system of classification based on the presumed phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of groups of organisms.

cla·dis′tic, cla·dis′ti·cal adj.

cla·dis′ti·cal·ly adv.

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cladistically

(kləˈdɪstɪkəlɪ)

adv

from a cladistic point of view

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Cladistically speaking, character polarity refers to the distinction between the ancestral and derived states and the identification of synapomorphies.

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In addition, traditional circumscription dealt with Malvaceae (s.s.) as a very homogenous and cladistically monophyletic group [13,14,15,47,48,51,52], whereas it considered the other three families as paraphyletic [33,32].

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There are only three species of Dondersia that establish the characters used in our coding and can be analyzed cladistically: D.

Hard and soft anatomy in two genera of Dondersiidae (Mollusca, Aplacophora, Solenogastres)

(2002), proposed a cladistically based recircumscription of Dioscorea, sinking the morphologically distinct but cladistically internested genus Rajania, which has a distinctive, asymmetrical, single-winged samara.

Phylogenetic distribution and identification of fin-winged fruits

A similar constellation has been described for another cladistically related fumigati-mimetic, Neosartorya udagawae, in patients with chronic granulomatous disease or myelodysplasia (15), which may suggest pathogenetic differences between subgroups within section Fumigati.