Meanings of cosmopolitan distribution in English

Thus, M. chthonoplastes represents a single, well-delimited taxon with a truly cosmopolitan distribution.

Killer whales have a cosmopolitan distribution and as a species are generalists, feeding on a variety of prey.

To assess whether the separate species have a cosmopolitan distribution, we analysed 184 strains from marine and estuarine sites worldwide.

Since many morphospecies show cosmopolitan distribution, an understanding of biogeographic and evolutionary processes at the level of genetic diversity requires global sampling.

Some fungal sequences represented potentially novel organisms as well as ones with a cosmopolitan distribution in terrestrial, fresh and salt water environments.

T1 (T. spiralis s str) is the etiological agent for the domestic cycle, with a cosmopolitan distribution related to swine breeding and human habits.