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clade

 [klād]
a grouping of genetic variants within a single species.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

clade

(klād)
n.
A grouping of organisms made on the basis of their presumed evolutionary history, consisting of a common ancestor and all of its descendants.
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clade

Cladus, subtype Genetics A branch of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor; a single phylogenetic group or line. See Inheritance, Species.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

clade

(klād)
A term denoting all strains derived from a common ancestor. Used to describe human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) strains.
[G. klados, branch]
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clade

a group of organisms having a common ancestor - a complete branch of a phylogenetic tree.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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The overall topology was similar to the topology obtained in BI and the topology of the supported clades was similar to both BI and ML results.
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Time-banding in the taxonomy of oysters is at best premature and at worst, if made obligatory, would be damaging to the stability of the recognized clades (Zachos 2011).
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Overall, the expression of clade A FvbZIP genes has different organ specificities, including a functional diversification coupled with the expansion of this gene family in strawberry.
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scaber clade (n = 17) was significantly lower than that of the C.
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Clade E was shared between Turkish and Iranian chickens.
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To accomplish this goal, we employed recent and comprehensive phylogenies of the genus Aegla by comparing two clades of closely-related species.
Carapace shape of some aeglid crabs: plasticity at different levels

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