Definition of monophyletic in English:
monophyletic
adjective ˌmɒnə(ʊ)fʌɪˈlɛtɪkˌmänōfīˈledik
Biology (of a group of organisms) descended from a common evolutionary ancestor or ancestral group, especially one not shared with any other group.
Example sentencesExamples
- Taxa names represent monophyletic groups of viruses with similar coding capacities.
- Given two monophyletic groups of taxa, the site patterns found in an alignment of sequences can be described in terms of five classes.
- Most of the traditionally recognized subgenera of Anchusa are also supported as monophyletic groups by both nuclear and plastid sequence data.
- The tree topology showed that the endosymbiotic species formed a well-supported monophyletic group.
- We extended the analysis to the five cowbird species that conform a monophyletic group in the phylogeny.