• Deep sequencing of DNA from infected tissues, followed by gene-specific PCR and sequencing, revealed a divergent species within the newly proposed genus Versteria (Cestoda: Taeniidae). (cdc.gov)
  • We describe the identification of a previously genetically uncharacterized species within the newly proposed Taeniid (Cestoda) genus Versteria ( 1 ), which caused fatal metacestode infection in a captive juvenile Bornean orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus ). (cdc.gov)
  • His lab is interested in identifying the patterns of genomic evolution of fungal species and populations, especially focused on the evolution, systematics, and genomics of secondary metabolism of the genus Basidiobolus . (clarku.edu)
  • Finally, the integration of both molecular cytogenetic and phylogenetic approaches allowed the determination of specific chromosomes possibly involved in rearrangements and a better understanding about the evolutionary processes involved in the differentiation of Synbranchus genus. (scielo.br)
  • A group of strains representing species of the genus Leptospira, isolated from patients with leptospirosis in Mayotte (Indian Ocean), were previously found to be considerably divergent from other known species of the genus Leptospira. (nih.gov)
  • Draft genomes of the strains were also analysed to study the DNA relatedness with other species of the genus Leptospira. (nih.gov)
  • The DNA sequences, supported by the morpho-anatomical character of tetrasporangial conceptacle roof development, placed all three species in the genus Chamberlainium and not Pneophyllum , the only other genus in Chamberlainoideae. (degruyter.com)
  • Primarily Andean, the genus seems to have undergone an adaptive radiation indicated by its high number of species, broad morphological variation, and diversification primarily in an ecosystem (páramo) that formed within the last 2-5 my. (bioone.org)
  • Internal transcriber spacer (ITS) sequences and several chloroplast markers, rpoB , rpoC1 , and psbA-trnH were sequenced in order to infer a preliminary phylogeny of the genus. (bioone.org)
  • Morphological character mapping results suggest that the high Andean forest tree species are derived from shrubby páramo-puna ancestors, contradicting previous hypotheses about morphological evolution of the genus and documenting an atypical trend of downslope diversification in páramo plants. (bioone.org)
  • Diplostephium Kunth is a genus of 111 known species ( Vargas, 2011 ), distributed from Costa Rica to northern Chile in high elevation cloud forests (2500-3000 m), páramos (3000-4500 m), and puna habitats (3800-4200 m). (bioone.org)
  • Gyalectoid Pertusaria species form a sister-clade to Coccotrema (Ostropomycetidae, Ascomycota) and comprise the new lichen genus Gyalectaria . (wikimedia.org)
  • The phylogenetic position of Malmidea , a new genus for the Lecidea piperis - and Lecanora granifera -groups (Lecanorales, Malmideaceae), inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences, with special reference to Thai species. (wikimedia.org)
  • BSc thesis: Nuclear phylogeny of the Caribbean genus Spathelia (Rutaceae). (uni-goettingen.de)
  • MSc thesis: Phylogeny of the genus Acronychia (Rutaceae). (uni-goettingen.de)
  • Myotis occurs virtually worldwide in diverse habitats, contains about 100 species, and has been described as the most widespread mammalian genus after Homo * [composite below shows - clockwise from far left - sleeping Bechstein's bat M. bechsteinii , Nepalese whiskered bat M. muricola , Geoffroy's bat M. emarginatus , Long-legged myotis M. volans and Greater mouse-eared bat M. myotis . (scienceblogs.com)
  • Four new species of the genus Apsiphortica Okada, 1971 (Diptera, Drosophilidae), with supplementary descriptions of two known species Journal of Natural History 41(41-44): 2707-2718. (wikimedia.org)
  • Ten new species of the genus Phortica from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Diptera: Drosophilidae). (wikimedia.org)
  • The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part I: the abbreviata species group from the Oriental region with morphological and molecular evidence. (wikimedia.org)
  • Diagnoses of a new genus and 64 new species of fishes from Laos (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Bagridae, Syngnathidae, Chaudhuriidae and Tetraodontidae). (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • 2017. On the snout and oromandibular morphology of genus Garra, description of two new species from the Koladyne River basin in Mizoram, India, and redescription of G. manipurensis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • As a Boophis , this genus has an intercalary element between the ultimate and penultimate phalanges in the fingers and toes, nuptial pads, absence of femoral and gular glands in males, enlarged terminal discs at the fingers and toes, lateral webbing on the metatarsalia, absence of outer metatarsal tubercle, and overall similarity to other Boophis species. (amphibiaweb.org)
  • This species was placed in the genus Lithobates by Frost et al. (amphibiaweb.org)
  • North American stygobiontic diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) with description of Ereboporus naturaconservatus Miller, Gibson and Alarie, new genus and species from Texas, USA. (laurentian.ca)
  • The systematics of echinostomes within the so-called ' revolutum ' group of the genus Echinostoma , which encompasses the type-species E. revolutum and a number of morphologically similar species, has long been controversial. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Her research interest is in the phylogeny of the genus Chromis, a large group with over 106 described species. (calacademy.org)
  • I learnt how to use allozymes as molecular markers from Honor Prentice, and I also applied these markers to another old interest, the marsh orchids in the genus Dactylorhiza [sv. (lu.se)
  • The Tabima lab uses a multidisciplinary approach of integrating tools and concepts from evolutionary theory, computational biology, genomics, genetics, and plant pathology/mycology in order to study these phenomena, as well as to create computational and molecular tools for the rapid identification of species, populations, genes of interest and molecular patterns of fungal evolution. (clarku.edu)
  • Two groups of scientists, including researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics in Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, have now succeeded in demonstrating, for the first time, that parallels exist between individual development and phylogeny on the level of gene expression. (news-medical.net)
  • Sarcocystosis in Poikilothermic Animals Genetics , Phylogeny, and Molecular Epidemiology of Sarcocystis. (routledge.com)
  • 2016. MEGA7: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets. (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • Revalidated by: Glaw F, Koehler J, de la Riva I, Vieites DR, Vences M (2010) "Integrative taxonomy of Malagasy treefrogs: combination of molecular genetics, bioacoustics and comparative morphology reveals twelve additional species of Boophis . (amphibiaweb.org)
  • In 2011 Hekkala, Saumure, Jaeger, Herrmann, Sredl, Bradford, Drabeck and Blum, in an open access article published in Conservation Genetics (DOI 10.1007/s10592-011-0229-6), showed that the closely related species Rana chiricahuensis includes two genetically distinct lineages. (amphibiaweb.org)
  • The course starts with basic lectures of methods and concepts in genetics and molecular ecology. (lu.se)
  • 2016. Garra fluviatilis, a new hillstream fish species (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Khwae Noi River system, Mae Khlong basin, Thailand. (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • 2016. PartitionFinder 2: new methods for selecting partitioned models of evolution for molecular and morphological phylogenetic analyses. (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • 2016) recognized subgenera within Rana for the major traditional species groups, with Lithobates used as the subgenus for the Rana palmipes group. (amphibiaweb.org)
  • 2016), the most widely accepted estimation of the total number of species remains at 3 million (Hawksworth 2012). (kew.org)
  • Using flowering plants to address questions about plant biodiversity, biogeography, and evolution, I am interested in why some families of flowering plants are so species-rich and the factors that have promoted this diversification. (calacademy.org)
  • Various plant families are treated with focus on phylogeny, diagnostic traits, biogeography and cultural plants. (lu.se)
  • This dissertation addresses an issue of key importance to the field of systematics, namely how to foster taxonomic work and the dissemination of knowledge about species by taking full advantage of electronic data and bioinformatic tools. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • In addition to a taxonomic revision, a molecular phylogeny of the family that includes representatives of all biological species clarifies the evolutionary relationships. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • A molecular phylogeny and recent taxonomic revision for Indian species of the scolopendrid Digitipes Attems, 1930 , permit variability of traditional taxonomic characters for Scolopendridae to be mapped onto a phylogeny. (ncbs.res.in)
  • Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Amiota nagatai species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae). (wikimedia.org)
  • In phylogenetic analyses, the new species is nested in a clade consisting of C. huongsonensis and C. soni from northern Vietnam and C. cf. pulchellus from Malaysia based on maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. (researchgate.net)
  • Recent molecular analyses of mt genome sequences have provided selectable hypotheses for the phylogenetic relationships of nematodes based on 18S rRNA. (nature.com)
  • The analyses of the total nad 1 dataset provided evidence for 12 monophyletic groups and five singletons, which represent seven described/named species and ten cryptic species-level lineages of Echinostoma . (biomedcentral.com)
  • You will learn how to use such methods, in the lab and in computer-based analyses, and to read scientific papers using molecular techniques. (lu.se)
  • We then continue with analyses of variation within species for genetic identification of individuals, parents, populations and analyses inferring the evolutionary history of species (phylogeography). (lu.se)
  • Our discovery confirms the earlier anatomical studies and broadens our understanding of how development and evolution are linked at molecular level,' explains Alex T. Kalinka, a researcher from the Dresden group. (news-medical.net)
  • The discovery of the hourglass pattern in different species makes it possible for evolutionary biologists to travel back in time to the earliest days of evolution when the differences between organisms arose. (news-medical.net)
  • 2003. Recent speciation in the Indo-West Pacific: Rapid evolution of gamete recognition and sperm morphology in cryptic species of sea urchin. (scielo.br)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33: 1870-1874. (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29: 1695-1701. (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34: 772-773. (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 114: 367-381. (vliz.be)
  • Molecular epidemiology, evolution and phylogeny of SARS coronavirus. (cdc.gov)
  • Evolution of rotavirus C in humans and several domestic animal species. (cdc.gov)
  • For students in ecology and evolution who want to learn the basics of molecular techniques to study wild species of animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc. (lu.se)
  • The latest schedule for the course Molecular Ecology and Evolution in the schedule software TimeEdit. (lu.se)
  • Here we obtained a well-resolved polymorphism type of intergenic spacer (IGS) sequence phylogeny of B. burgdorferi sensu stricto clonal complexes (corresponding to the ospC- A and -B groups) is associated by using multilocus sequence typing at housekeeping loci with hematogenous dissemination in patients with early as well as loci under adaptive evolution. (cdc.gov)
  • Molecular Ecology and Evolution 15 credits, are required. (lu.se)
  • First report of barley root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne naasi from turfgrass in Idaho, with multigene molecular characterization. (usda.gov)
  • Track the emergence and spread of fungal diseases by conducting molecular surveillance and genomic epidemiology. (cdc.gov)
  • 2017). Xibalbanus cozumelensis, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from Cozumel, Mexico, and a molecular phylogeny of Xibalbanus on the Yucatán Peninsula. (uib.no)
  • 2017). Just a 50-day fungal inventory revealed up to 308 potentially new species not previously included in the global sequence repositories. (kew.org)
  • 2018. Two new species of Garra (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the lower Yarlung Tsangpo River drainage in southeastern Tibet, China. (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • The approach used in this study to evaluate morphological variation in a phylogenetic framework can be applied to other taxa in which morphologically cryptic species have been reported and where species diagnosis requires a combination of characters. (ncbs.res.in)
  • These insights call for a stronger focus on within-species variation patterns and possibly on species that are common in our area, but that are rare in other parts of Europe. (lu.se)
  • The focus here is on species delimitation with no a priori assignment of individuals to species, and no guide tree. (biorxiv.org)
  • Current practice, using a pipeline approach to species delimitation under the multispecies coalescent, has been shown to have major problems on simulated data [ 10 ]. (biorxiv.org)
  • Taxonomic studies on scolopendrid centipedes have often documented variability at the individual and population levels and applied those data to questions of species delimitation, but these investigations have mostly lacked an explicit phylogenetic framework. (ncbs.res.in)
  • Badis limaakumi Praveenraj, 2023 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.3.5 Abstract Badis limaakumi , a new species of Badis from Nagaland, No. (blogspot.com)
  • In my research I am establishing and testing harmonized and automated observation systems for biological diversity in the sea, spanning from molecular sensors (i.e. genomic observatories) to human sensors (i.e. citizen science). (gu.se)
  • 2007. Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation. (scielo.br)
  • Still, the alpha diversity is not well known in many areas, and new species are frequently recovered. (lu.se)
  • Recently, the development of molecular genetic screening techniques has revealed high diversity and higher prevalence of avian malaria than previously thought. (unil.ch)
  • His research focuses on diversity and distributions of marine macroalgae, where he addresses questions ranging from purely descriptive taxonomic studies to more ecologically oriented studies forecasting the distribution of species in relation to environmental changes. (marinespecies.org)
  • Next to descriptive taxonomic work, he's intrigued by the effect of recent technological developments (e.g DNA-sequencing technology) on our understanding of algal species boundaries, global diversity estimates, biodiversity patterns and current taxonomic practices. (marinespecies.org)
  • A more recent line of interest concerns our focus on the interplay of algal community structure, evolutionary relatedness of the composing species and functional trait diversity. (marinespecies.org)
  • One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity. (wikimedia.org)
  • Species diversity of the subgenus Amiota (s. str. (wikimedia.org)
  • The overall goal of this project is to answer the question of what fungal species can be found in Boyacá, implementing state-of-the-art approaches to analyse fungal diversity and developing a new protocol that is reproducible and easy to disseminate. (kew.org)
  • This is especially true for Europe where morphological evidence indicates higher species diversity than previously thought, but where molecular data are virtually lacking. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, my research also shows that much diversity may be hidden within species and that populations of widespread species may be as important targets for conservation as named taxa. (lu.se)
  • Because attempts to identify the parasite by morphologic features were inconclusive, total DNA extracted from infected organs was subjected to deep sequencing to detect molecular sequences of pathogens. (cdc.gov)
  • This article describes a Bayesian method for inferring both species delimitations and species trees under the multispecies coalescent model using DNA sequences from multiple loci. (biorxiv.org)
  • Based on plastid encoded DNA sequences from psb A and rbc L markers, these species belong in the subfamily Chamberlainoideae. (degruyter.com)
  • Genetic variability, cryptic species and phylogenetic relationship of six cyathostomin species based on mitochondrial and nuclear sequences. (fu-berlin.de)
  • Nuclear and mitochondrial marker sequences reveal close relationship between Coronocyclus coronatus and a potential Cylicostephanus calicatus cryptic species complex. (fu-berlin.de)
  • The rbcL sequence data we produced was combined with rbcL sequences from many other labs, and in 1993 we published the first comprehensive paper describing the phylogeny of Flowering plants based on gene sequences. (lu.se)
  • Molecular phylogeny of Columbellidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). (vliz.be)
  • A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record. (vliz.be)
  • Bayesian inference was introduced into molecular phylogenetics in the 1990s by three independent groups: Bruce Rannala and Ziheng Yang in Berkeley, Bob Mau in Madison, and Shuying Li in University of Iowa, the last two being PhD students at the time. (wikipedia.org)
  • The approach has become very popular since the release of the MrBayes software in 2001, and is now one of the most popular methods in molecular phylogenetics. (wikipedia.org)
  • This was inferred from sequence analysis of rrs (16S rRNA) and other genetic loci and suggests that they belong to a novel species. (nih.gov)
  • On a robust genetic phylogeny maximum likelihood methods recover migration and monochromatism as the ancestral state in warblers. (frontiersin.org)
  • Amiota (Amiota) apodemata species-group, with descriptions of two new species from Southeast Asia (Diptera, Drosophilidae). (wikimedia.org)
  • A revision of the Asian and European species in the subgenus Amiota Loew (Diptera, Drosophilidae) and the establishment of species-groups based on phylogenetic analysis. (wikimedia.org)
  • Stegana ( Oxyphortica ) nigripennis species-group, with descriptions of four new species from Southeast Asia (Insecta: Diptera: Drosophilidae). (wikimedia.org)
  • Three new species of Stegana ( Oxyphortica ) from Yunnan Province, southwestern China (Insecta: Diptera: Drosophilidae). (wikimedia.org)
  • The Stegana coleoptrata species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from mainland China. (wikimedia.org)
  • Stegana ornatipes species group from the Oriental Region (Diptera: Drosophilidae). (wikimedia.org)
  • Three new species of Stegana (Steganina) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from southern China. (wikimedia.org)
  • The Stegana undulata species group (Diptera, Drosophilidae), with molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Chinese species. (wikimedia.org)
  • Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Stegana ornatipes species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in China, with description of a new species. (wikimedia.org)
  • Chen, H.-W. 2012: Ten new species of the Stegana ( Steganina ) shirozui species group (Diptera, Drosophilidae) from China. (wikimedia.org)
  • A synopsis of the Micropezidae (Diptera) of Canada and Alaska, with descriptions of four new species. (bugguide.net)
  • Based on their fit to the tree using maximum likelihood, reliable species-level characters include the number of glabrous antennal articles, presence of a median ridge on the tergites, and presence or absence of a tarsal spur on leg 20. (ncbs.res.in)
  • These species-Cavenderia basinodulosa, C. canoespora, Heterostelium radiatum, H. versatile, and Raperostelium stabile-are described based on both morphological characteristics and molecular data, with sequence data from the rDNA small subunit (SSU). (lu.se)
  • HEVnet: a One Health, collaborative, interdisciplinary network and sequence data repository for enhanced hepatitis E virus molecular typing, characterisation and epidemiological investigations. (cdc.gov)
  • Female song is generally not reconstructed as present in any deep nodes of the phylogeny, suggesting that most extant species with female song evolved this trait independently and relatively recently. (frontiersin.org)
  • Recent work using mitochondrial DNA, advertisement calls, and, to a lesser extent, morphology revealed that P. fouquettei is indeed a separate species from P. feriarum (Moriarty Lemmon et al. (amphibiaweb.org)
  • Molecular Ecology , third edition (2020) Freeland J., Wiley Blackwell. (lu.se)
  • Morphological and molecular characterization of Longidorus patuxentensis n. sp. (usda.gov)
  • The five new species are morphologically disparate, ranging from relatively small, robust taxa such as R. stabile to taxa with variable morphologies such as the larger H. radiatum and H. versatile and the yellow-tinted and irregularly branched species C. canoespora and C. basinulosa. (lu.se)
  • These new species, together with earlier work where 13 other species were described from the island, suggest that there is a range of genetically diverse and highly morphologically variable dictyostelid taxa occurring on Madagascar, suggesting biogeographic patterns even within these very small organisms. (lu.se)
  • Barring the basal meadowlark clade, the ancestor of the rest of the New World blackbirds is inferred to have been a sedentary, monochromatic species with singing females. (frontiersin.org)
  • Postdoc Project: Molecular phylogeny of Vetrix-Chamaetia clade (Salix, Salicaceae), with an emphasis on Chinese species. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • The fish species Synbranchus marmoratus has been reported to exist as a species complex due to high intraspecific karyotypic variability in spite of the difficulty or impossibility to distinguish them using morphological traits alone. (scielo.br)
  • Description of the larvae of Heterosternuta sulphuria (Matta and Wolfe) with a key of identification of the known species of Heterosternuta Strand. (laurentian.ca)
  • Three new non-geniculate coralline algal species from South Africa are described that were passing under the misapplied name, Spongites yendoi . (degruyter.com)
  • First records of the non-indigenous green algal species Siphonocladus tropicus (Cladophorales, Chlorophyta) and Caulerpa integerrima (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) in the Mediterranean Sea. (marinespecies.org)
  • Bayesian inference of phylogeny combines the information in the prior and in the data likelihood to create the so-called posterior probability of trees, which is the probability that the tree is correct given the data, the prior and the likelihood model. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, much material without names had accumulated in botanical museums with time and I decribed several species and taxa at lower rank that were new to science. (lu.se)
  • With most fungal species yet to be discovered, the extent of the importance of fungi is most likely underestimated. (kew.org)
  • Moreover, with major environmental threats such as climate change, we may be losing fungal species to extinction before we even discover them in understudied areas like Boyacá. (kew.org)
  • Do unrelated species occurring in similar ecological niches produce equivalent chemical products? (kew.org)
  • was carried out based on molecular, morphological and ecological data. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For students in molecular biology who want to learn how molecular techniques can be applied to ecological and evolutionary questions in non-model organisms. (lu.se)
  • Whereas 135,000 species of fungi have been described worldwide so far (Hibbett et al. (kew.org)
  • By using the latest molecular techniques, we hope to uncover fascinating insights into Boyaca's fungi. (kew.org)
  • These two studies throw new light on an age-old biological conundrum: that of the link between ontogeny and phylogeny. (news-medical.net)
  • Our study provides a comprehensive reference library for precisely identified isolates of the European species and highlights the importance of an integrative approach for species identification linking molecular, morphological and biological data. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Larval morphology of Rhantus Dejean (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Colymbetinae): descriptions of 21 species and phylogenetic considerations. (laurentian.ca)
  • Snail screening provided representative larval isolates for five species of the ' revolutum ' group, identified by their morphology. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Comparisons with published accounts of variability in species of other scolopendrid genera, particularly Scolopendra and Otostigmus , show that Indian Digitipes has conserved morphology in some characters that are taxonomically useful elsewhere in the family, and most of its taxonomically informative characters have analogous patterns of variability in other genera. (ncbs.res.in)
  • Molecular DNA techniques are nowadays widely used and instrumental tools in a wide range of applications from conservation biology to evolutionary ecology. (lu.se)
  • Traditionally, most conservation efforts have been directed towards the preservation of isolated populations at the margin of their species distributions. (lu.se)
  • Thus, clarifying the species of parasites that porcupines are infected with is important for the control of parasitic diseases. (nature.com)
  • The goal of this work was to use cytogenetic and molecular methods to determine the species delimitations and understand the karyoevolution of S . marmoratus using samples collected from distinct Brazilian localities. (scielo.br)
  • We are investigating the micro-evolutionary relationships in one host-parasite system consisting of different bat species and species of obligatory parasitic mites that spend their entire life on their bat host ( Spinturnix sp ). (unil.ch)
  • Together, these genomes and associated functional data elucidate key aspects of the molecular host-parasite interactions that define chronic whipworm infection. (nature.com)
  • Species richness and habitat diversification of bryophytes in submontane rain forest and fallows of Bolivia. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • Particularly promising are studies which involve closely related parasite species that parasitized a same host species because such systems might provide insights into the detailed mechanisms of coevolution between host defences and parasite virulence. (unil.ch)
  • A closely-related species, the Devil Firefish ( Pterois miles ), is similar to the Red Lionfish. (usgs.gov)
  • In parallel, multiple technologies and manual finishing were used to produce an 85-Mb reference genome assembly from the more readily available mouse parasite species T. muris (Online Methods and Supplementary Note ). (nature.com)
  • 2019. Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: genera, species, references. (pfeil-verlag.de)
  • Different clonal complexes may prefer molecular markers provides a more robust inference on different host species ( 9 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Nevertheless, many species lack female song, and researchers are interested in understanding the selective factors that promote and counter the persistence of this trait. (frontiersin.org)
  • for example, is a critical trait found in one species (e.g., antibiotic production) likely also to be found in its relatives? (kew.org)
  • Phylogenetic comparative methods commonly assume that the evolutionary relationships between the studied species are known. (lu.se)
  • The name is feminine in gender and refers to a common habitat of these species. (blogspot.com)
  • This species was associated with springs and trickling streams in "springy fields", with the habitat isolated by the surrounding desert (Wright and Wright 1949). (amphibiaweb.org)