relating to the classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry
cladistic in American English
(kləˈdɪstɪk)
adjective
of or pertaining to clades or cladistics
Examples of 'cladistic' in a sentence
cladistic
It was omitted in most of recent cladistic analyses about clupeomorphs.
FRANCISCO J. DE FIGUEIREDO, DOUGLAS R.M. RIBEIRO 2016, 'Relationships of †Codoichthys carnavalii Santos, 1994 (Teleostei, Clupeomorpha, †Ellimmichthyiformes)from the Late Aptian of São Luís-Grajaú Basin, NE Brazil', Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciênciashttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652016005014104&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Here we show that these claims arise from misunderstanding and misinterpretations of cladistic methodology.
Arshan Nasir, Arshan Nasir, Kyung Mo Kim, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés 2017, 'Phylogenetic Tracings of Proteome Size Support the Gradual Accretion of Protein StructuralDomains and the Early Origin of Viruses from Primordial Cells', Frontiers in Microbiologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01178/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cladistic analysis revealed three reciprocally monophyletic mitochondrial clades.
Theodora Farmaki, Theodore J. Abatzopoulos, Athanasios D. Baxevanis, Stefania Maniatsi,Ilias Kappas 2009, 'Sharp Phylogeographic Breaks and Patterns of Genealogical Concordance in the BrineShrimp Artemia franciscana', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/10/12/5455/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Finally, sequences with high cladistic information produce more consistent trees for the same taxa.
Michael J. Wise 2016, 'dCITE: Measuring Necessary Cladistic Information Can Help You Reduce Polytomy Artefactsin Trees', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0166991. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A cladistic analysis was performed using 40 characters and 21 taxa.
Nora Denise Fortes de Fortes, Jocélia Grazia 2005, 'Revisão e análise cladística de Serdia Stål (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatomini)Review and cladistic analysis of Serdia Stål (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatomini)',Revista Brasileira de Entomologiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262005000300002. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The cladistic analysis performed here supports this hypothesis.
Paloma López-Guerrero, Olivier Maridet, Zhaoqun Zhang, Gudrun Daxner-Höck 2017, 'A new species of Argyromys (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of the Valley ofLakes (Mongolia): Its importance for palaeobiogeographical homogeneity across Mongolia,China and Kazakhstan.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5362143?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The cladistic biogeographic analysis suggests a hummingbird distribution shaped mainly by dispersal events.
Daiane Ouvernay, Ildemar Ferreira, Juan J. Morrone 2018, 'Areas of endemism of hummingbirds (Aves: Apodiformes: Trochilidae) in the Andean andNeotropical regions', Zoologia (Curitiba)http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702018000100319&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This material provides new information into the anatomy, ontogeny, and cladistic affinities of the species.
Andrew D. Gentry 2018, 'Prionochelys matutina Zangerl, 1953 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceousof the United States and the evolution of epithecal ossifications in marine turtles',PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/5876.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These results corroborated previous findings based on cladistic analysis of cranial and post-cranial characters.
Federico Villalobos, Gustavo Gutierrez-Espeleta 2014, 'Mesoamerican tree squirrels evolution (Rodentia: Sciuridae): a molecular phylogeneticanalysis', Revista de Biología Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442014000100020&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)