ancestral species

collocation in English

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ancestral
adjective[before noun]
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/ænˈses.trəl/us
/ænˈses.trəl/
relating to members of your family from ...
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species
noun[C]
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/ˈspiː.ʃiːz/us
/ˈspiː.ʃiːz/
a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with ...
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A pair of homologous genes sampled from two species must have diverged in theancestralspecies.
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An attempt to estimate the effective size of theancestralspeciescommon to two extant species from which homologous genes are sequenced.
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As incipient species begin to diverge from one another, they originally share genetic variation that was common to theirancestralspecies.
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Two proteins in different species descended from the same protein in anancestralspeciesare orthologues.
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The authors estimated the population sizes ofancestralspeciesof humans, chimpanzees and gorillas, using synonymous, pseudogene and intron differences (referred to as ' silent ' differences) at many nuclear loci.
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Since we do not know what theancestralspeciesat these nodes were like, values at nodes are averages of the species (or nodes) that evolved from them.
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Sequences from different loci share the same species divergence time, while their coalescent times in the ancestral population vary according to the population size of theancestralspecies.
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For example, a fossil record may make it possible to determine the number of years between anancestralspeciesand a descendant species.
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Rudimentary body parts, those that are smaller and simpler in structure than corresponding parts in theancestralspecies, are called vestigial organs.
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It is thought that theancestralspeciesinhabited a part of the volcanic archipelago that is now submerged.
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However, it is actually a form of regressive atavism, meaning that he has inherited traits ofancestralspeciesof the human race such as reptiles.
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Theancestralspecieswas likely smaller than the current one, as the earliest red fox fossils are smaller than modern populations.
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There is no clear line demarcating theancestralspeciesfrom the descendant species.
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It is theorized that they were anancestralspeciesfrom which these two modern species diverged.
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One hypothesis states that echolocation evolved from anancestralspeciesof swiftlets and was lost in the genera which lack echolocation.
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Indirect evidence suggests thatancestralspeciesundertook two periods of aggressive range expansions (dispersal) separated by a period of inactivity.
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Superfamily members may be in different species, with the ancestral protein being the form of the protein that existed in theancestralspecies(orthology).
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At very early stages, for instance, all vertebrates appear extremely similar, but do not exactly resemble anyancestralspecies.
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It was estimated that the commonancestralspeciesthat first developed venom in the venom clade lived on the order of 200 million years ago.
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