molecular evidence

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molecular
adjective
uk
/məˈlek.jə.lər/us
/məˈlek.jə.lɚ/
relating to molecules (= the simplest units of a ...
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evidence
noun[U]
uk
/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/us
/ˈev.ə.dəns/
one or more reasons for believing that something is or is ...
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(Definition ofmolecularandevidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Themolecularevidenceso far refutes this scenario.
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Thus, at this point, the phylogenetic andmolecularevidenceindicate that nitrogen fixation arose before photosynthesis, but more work on this question is needed.
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Grevelding et al. (1997) provided the firstmolecularevidencethat female schistosomes need a constant stimulus from the male to maintain female-specific gene expression.
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As they note, however, recentmolecularevidencesuggests this intriguing group may have nothing to do with the annelids, let alone the polychaetes.
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This hypothesis is contradicted by ourmolecularevidence.
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However, there has been nomolecularevidencedocumented in the literature so far.
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The genetic andmolecularevidencefor our current understanding of signaling pathways is presented in some detail and most chapters have a minimal number of illustrations to give essential summaries.
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More recently, new fossil andmolecularevidenceis providing an increasingly clear picture of the evolution of modern bird orders.
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It was long thought that the angiosperms arose from within the gymnosperms, but recentmolecularevidence suggests that their living representatives form two distinct groups.
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Divisions of the genus into subgenera or sections before 2003 do not seem to be well-supported bymolecularevidence.
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This relationship was neither supported nor rejected bymolecularevidence.
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Red algae as basal is also supported bymolecularevidence.
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Based on newmolecularevidencein silk genes, all three families are very likely to have a common origin.
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While physically dissimilar,molecularevidencesupports the relatedness of the genera.
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Recentmolecularevidenceshows that the first two groups are likely to be monophyletic and the protosteloids however to be polyphyletic.
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Molecularevidencesuggests it is a basal clade within the family, and it is monophyletic.
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Molecularevidencesuggests it is related to the tenrecs.
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However, morphological andmolecularevidencesupport a monophyletic origin.
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Another recent study hints at even more incongruity between traditional circumscription andmolecularevidence.
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