monophyletic

(adjective)

of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms

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Examples of monophyletic in the following topics:

  • Building Phylogenetic Trees

    • Consequently, all of these organisms also have amniotic eggs and make a single clade, also called a monophyletic group.
    • The important factor is that all of the organisms in the clade or monophyletic group stem from a single point on the tree.
    • This can be remembered because monophyletic breaks down into "mono," meaning one, and "phyletic," meaning evolutionary relationship.

  • Overview of Proteobacteria

    • The alpha, beta, delta, epsilon sections are monophyletic, but the Gammaproteobacteria due to the Acidithiobacillus genus is paraphyletic to Betaproteobacteria, according to multigenome alignment studies, which if done correctly are more precise than 16S (note that Mariprofundus ferrooxydans sole member of the Zetaproteobacteria was previously misclassified on NCBI taxonomy).

  • Opisthokonts: Animals and Fungi

    • Both genetic and ultrastructural studies strongly support that opisthokonts form a monophyletic group.

  • Diverse Cell Forms of Methanogens

    • These species do not form a monophyletic group, but are split into three clades.

  • Early Plant Life

    • Current evolutionary thought holds that all plants, green algae as well as land dwellers, are monophyletic; that is, they are descendants of a single common ancestor.

  • Glomeromycota

    • This analysis shows that all glomeromycetes probably descended from a common ancestor 462 and 353 million years ago, making them a monophyletic lineage.

  • Streptophytes and Reproduction of Green Algae

    • Consequently, land plants (embryophytes) and closely-related green algae (Charophyta) are now part of a new monophyletic group called Streptophyta.

  • Phylogeny of the Eukarya

    • The Amoeboza and Opisthokonta are each monophyletic and form a clade, often called the unikonts.

  • Characteristics of Gymnosperms

    • As will be discussed in subsequent sections, the various environmental adaptations gymnosperms have represent a step on the path to the most successful (diversity-wise) clade (monophyletic branch).

  • Overview of Bacterial Viruses

    • Tailed phages appear to be monophyletic and are the oldest known virus group.