a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a suborder
2.
any analogous group, such as a group of related languages
Examples of 'superfamilies' in a sentence
superfamilies
Protein superfamilies can exhibit considerable diversification of function among their members in various organisms.
Jiusheng Lin, Tara J. Nazarenus, Jeanine L. Frey, Xinwen Liang, Mark A. Wilson, JulieM. Stone 2011, 'A Plant DJ-1 Homolog Is Essential for Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplast Development',PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0023731. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Here, the morphological diagnoses to all 33 families and five superfamilies are provided.
Timothy D. O'Hara, Sabine Stöhr, Andrew F. Hugall, Ben Thuy, Alexander Martynov 2018, 'Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support ofa new classification', European Journal of Taxonomyhttp://www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/544. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The sequence space of five protein superfamilies was investigated by constructing sequence networks.
Patrick C F Buchholz, Catharina Zeil, Jürgen Pleiss 2018, 'The scale-free nature of protein sequence space.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6070207?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Relationships within superfamilies and families, however, are often robustly resolved.
Hausmann Axel, Hallwachs Winifred, Epstein Marc, Davis Donald R, Parr Cynthia, BrownJohn W, Baixeras Joaquin, Roe Amanda, Weller Susan, Cho Soowon, Kawahara Akito Y,Cummings Michael P, Zwick Andreas, Regier Jerome C, Janzen Daniel H, Kitching IanJ, Solis M Alma, Yen Shen-Horn, Bazinet Adam L, Mitter Charles 2009, 'Toward reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera:Ditrysia): an initial molecular study', BMC Evolutionary Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/280. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These families fall into seven superfamilies, only five of which have been characterized so far.
de la Chaux Nicole, Wagner Andreas 2011, 'BEL/Pao retrotransposons in metazoan genomes', BMC Evolutionary Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/154. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We identified 146 novel toxin-like sequences, which were classified into eighteen different superfamilies.
Zhaotun Hu, Bo Chen, Zhen Xiao, Xi Zhou, Zhonghua Liu 2019, 'Transcriptomic Analysis of the Spider Venom Gland Reveals Venom Diversity and SpeciesConsanguinity', Toxinshttps://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/11/2/68. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Protein superfamilies can be divided into subfamilies of proteins with different functional characteristics.
Inti Anabela Pagnuco, María Victoria Revuelta, Hernán Gabriel Bondino, Marcel Brun,Arjen Ten Have 2018, 'HMMER Cut-off Threshold Tool (HMMERCTTER): Supervised classification of superfamilyprotein sequences with a reliable cut-off threshold.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5868777?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We also determined whether the expansions of large superfamilies correlate with each other.
Christine Vogel, Cyrus Chothia 2006, 'Protein family expansions and biological complexity.', PLoS Computational Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1464810?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Protein superfamilies have provided a number of leading liver fluke vaccine candidates.
E James LaCourse, Samirah Perally, Russell M Morphew, Joseph V Moxon, Mark Prescott,David J Dowling, Sandra M O'Neill, Anja Kipar, Udo Hetzel, Elizabeth Hoey, RafaelZafra, Leandro Buffoni, José Pérez Arévalo, Peter M Brophy 2012, 'The Sigma class glutathione transferase from the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica.',PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseaseshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3362645?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)