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Meanings of paraphyletic in English

Russian
парафилия
Portuguese
parafiléticos
Spanish
parafiletico
Catalan
parafiletisme

Condition where a taxon includes its common ancestor but excludes some descendants.

парафилия
Synonyms
Examples for "paraphyly"
Examples for "paraphyly"
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New family Rhizamoebidae is established here in order to avoid paraphyly of the family Leptomyxidae.
Pubmed
Usage of paraphyletic in English
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Our analyses demonstrate that paraphyletic relationships among serotypes are not as prevalent as previously proposed and suggest that convergent evolution might be obscuring phylogenetic relationships.
Pubmed