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Paraphyly is a
taxonomic term
describing a
grouping that
consists of the grouping's last
common ancestor and some but not all of its
descendant lineages...
- that
common ancestor,
without exception Monophyly is
contrasted with
paraphyly and
polyphyly as
shown in the
second diagram. A
paraphyletic grouping...
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called a
polyphyly /ˈpɒlɪˌfaɪli/. It is
contrasted with
monophyly and
paraphyly. For example, the
biological characteristic of warm-bloodedness evolved...
- PMID 21041649.
Although I was
among the
early supporters of
vertebrate paraphyly, I am
impressed by the
evidence provided by
Heimberg et al. and prepared...
- Alivon, E.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Vacelet, J.; Le-Parco, Y. (2001). "Sponge
paraphyly and the
origin of Metazoa".
Journal of
Evolutionary Biology. 14 (1): 171–179...
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analysis of
mitochondrial protein coding genes confirms the
reciprocal paraphyly of
Hexapoda and Crustacea". BMC
Evolutionary Biology. 7 (Suppl 2): S8...
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fungal phyla,
consisting of four
major clades with
suggestive evidence for
paraphyly or
possibly polyphyly. The
Blastocladiomycota were
previously considered...
- ; de Jong, W. W.; Stanhope, M. J.; Springer, M. S. (2002). "Microbat
paraphyly and the
convergent evolution of a key
innovation in Old
World rhinolophoid...
- Ctenochaetus, or
bristletooth tangs, is a
genus of
marine ray-finned fish
belonging to the
family Acanthuridae,
which includes the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes...
- from
molecular analyses,
although these results also lead to
unexpected paraphylies, for
instance scattering the
bivalves throughout all
other mollusc groups...
