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PRONUNCIATION OF MONOPHYLY

monophyly  [məˈnɒfɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONOPHYLY

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verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Monophyly is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MONOPHYLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Monophyly

In common cladistic usage, a monophyletic group is a taxon which forms a clade, meaning that it consists of an ancestral species and all its descendants. The term is synonymous with the uncommon term holophyly. Monophyletic groups are typically characterized by shared derived characteristics. Monophyly is contrasted with the terms paraphyly and polyphyly, which are most easily understood from the second diagram in this article. In current usage, a paraphyletic group consists of all of the descendants of a common ancestor minus one or more monophyletic groups. A paraphyletic group is thus 'nearly' monophyletic A polyphyletic group is characterized by convergent features or habits; the features by which the group is differentiated from others are not inherited from a common ancestor. These definitions have taken some time to be accepted. When the cladistic school of thought became mainstream in the 1960s, several alternative definitions were in use. Indeed, taxonomists sometimes used terms without defining them, leading to confusion in the early literature, a confusion which persists. See also: Crown group...

Definition of monophyly in the English dictionary

The definition of monophyly in the dictionary is the condition of being monophyletic or of having a sole shared ancestor.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONOPHYLY


acarophily
ˌækəˈrɒfɪlɪ
anemophily
ˌænɪˈmɒfɪlɪ
anisophylly
ˌænaɪˈsɒfɪlɪ
arctophily
ɑːkˈtɒfɪlɪ
bibliophily
ˌbɪblɪˈɒfɪlɪ
cartophily
kɑːˈtɒfɪlɪ
entomophily
ˌɛntəˈmɒfɪlɪ
hydrophily
haɪˈdrɒfɪlɪ
malacophily
ˌmæləˈkɒfɪlɪ
myophily
maɪˈɒfɪlɪ
myrmecophily
ˌmɜːmɪˈkɒfɪlɪ
oenophily
iːˈnɒfɪlɪ
ornithophily
ˌɔːnɪˈθɒfɪlɪ
photophily
fəʊˈtɒfɪlɪ
psychophily
saɪˈkɒfɪlɪ
sclerophylly
sklɪərˈɒfɪlɪ
scripophily
skrɪˈpɒfɪlɪ
timbrophily
tɪmˈbrɒfɪlɪ
toxophily
tɒkˈsɒfɪlɪ
xerophily
zɪəˈrɒfɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONOPHYLY

monophagous
monophagy
monophase
monophasic
monophobia
monophobic
monophonic
monophonically
monophony
monophosphate
monophthong
monophthongal
monophthongise
monophthongize
monophyletic
monophyllous
monophyodont

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONOPHYLY

brachydactyly
coyly
doyly
dryly
feyly
gayly
grayly
greyly
heterostyly
homophyly
Lyly
macrodactyly
pentadactyly
polydactyly
shyly
slyly
spryly
syndactyly
tetradactyly
wryly

Synonyms and antonyms of monophyly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «monophyly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONOPHYLY

Find out the translation of monophyly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of monophyly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «monophyly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

单系
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

monofilia
570 millions of speakers

English

monophyly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

monophyly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

monophyly
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

монофилия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

monophyly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

monophyly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monophylie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Monophyly
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Monophylie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

単系統
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

monophyly
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Monophyly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

monophyly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

monophyly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चकचकीतीने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

monofili
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

monofilia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Monofiletyzm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

монофилия
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

monophyly
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μονοφυλίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

monofilie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

monophyly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

monophyly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of monophyly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOPHYLY»

The term «monophyly» is regularly used and occupies the 95.545 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOPHYLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about monophyly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOPHYLY»

Discover the use of monophyly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to monophyly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Molecular Systematics and Plant Evolution
The increased precision embodied in Hennig's monophyly concept has since been recognized almost universally in systematics, even by those who object to monophyly as a necessary attribute of higher taxa (e.g. Stuessy, 1990; Sosef, 1997; ...
Peter M. Hollingsworth, Richard M. Bateman, Richard J. Gornall, 1999
2
Endless Forms: Species and Speciation
An illustration of the transition from polyphyly to monophyly (Avise and Ball 19901 expected to occur among genes sampled at a locus, when a lineage of organisms is split into two. Extinctions of genes at any particular point in time will occur ...
Daniel J. Howard, Stewart H. Berlocher, 1998
3
The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the ...
Accordingly, they tell us that “we suggest that the grouping criteria of the PSC are diagnosability and monophyly, which are assessed by cladistic analysis of character variation. The smallest diagnostic cluster is given the rank of species” ( 2).
David N. Stamos, 2003
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Introduction to the Principles of Plant Taxonomy
3.2 MONOPHYLY AND POLYPHYLY The concepts of monophyly and polyphyly are of far-reaching consequence in biological systematics and hence have been extensively debated. Literally, the term 'monophyletic' means pertaining to a ...
V. V. Sivarajan, N. K. P. Robson, 1991
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Systematics and the Origin of Species:: On Ernst Mayr's ...
The criterion of monophyly advocated by proponents of the phyloge- netic species concept (PSC) also suffers from arbitrariness, particularly given the disproportionate emphasis on mtDNA. It is not surprising that a number of workers have ...
Jody Hey, Walter M. Fitch, Francisco J. Ayala, 2005
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Arthropod Relationships
It presents serious problems for monophyly. Suppose the reputed ancestral arthropod adopted, even at a primitive level, a particular body plan involving a specific kind of tagmosis and a particular arrangement of limbs. Stabilizing selection ...
Richard A. Fortey, Richard H. Thomas, 1998
7
Estimating Species Trees: Practical and Theoretical Aspects
Genealogical Sorting Index (gsi) and p-Values Based on 1 Million Permutations for the Multilocus Rattlesnake Data Set against monophyly within a group, and the p-values computed for the egsi reflect this quite clearly: all the p-values are ...
L. Lacey Knowles, Laura S. Kubatko, 2011
8
Molecular Systematics of Plants II: DNA Sequencing
Gene trees supporting monophyly of these three groups corne from plastid and nuclear SSU rRNAs, the only molecules sampled multiply from all three groups ( Cavalier-Smith, 1993a; Bhattacharya et al., 1995b; Bhattacharya and Medlin, 1995 ...
Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, J.J. Doyle, 1998
9
Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea
Support for monophyly of the clade containing the Caulophrynidae, Neoceratiidae, Gigantactinidae, and Lino- phrynidae is moderate, having bootstrap support of 64% and a Bremer value of three. No nonhomoplastic character supports ...
Theodore W. Pietsch, 2009
10
Proceedings of a symposium honoring the careers of Ross and ...
the monophyly of the tribe is not in question. Grebennikov and Bousquet (1999) found three synapomorphies in larvae that suggest monophyly of the tribe. Our results confirm this, with all genes and all analyses indicating that Pogonus + ...
Terry L. Erwin, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOPHYLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term monophyly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Biogeography and evolution of a widespread Central American …
humilis, demonstrating the paraphyly of this species; while our analyses also reject the monophyly of the Norops humilis species group (sensu ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jul 15»
2
High nucleotide diversity and limited linkage disequilibrium in …
Helicoverpa is a well-defined genus within the heliothine subfamily of noctuid moths where its monophyly is strongly supported by morphology ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
A novel intracellular mutualistic bacterium in the invasive ant …
(2011), the monophyly of the cluster formed by Sodalis, Baumannia, Blochmannia and Wigglesworthia, in which Westeberhardia appears, ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
4
Origin and evolution of Petrocosmea (Gesneriaceae) inferred from …
Our objectives in this study are (1) to test the monophyly of the genus; (2) to explore the morphological origin and differentiation pattern of ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
5
Phylogeny and classification of the East Asian Amitostigma alliance …
These three clades together formed “Clade VII” in their combined nrITS, matK and rbcL tree [28]. After considering both monophyly and overall ... «BMC Blogs Network, May 15»
6
Our Human Ancestors Had Tentacles
... (2015) Modern Data on the Innervation of the Lophophore in Lingula anatina (Brachiopoda) Support the Monophyly of the Lophophorates. «Science 2.0, Apr 15»
7
`Strange bedfellow frogs' (part II): pig-nosed or shovel-nosed frogs …
The monophyly of Xenosyneunitanura has since been recovered by other authors (Pyron & Wiens 2011, Pyron 2014). Both 'strange bedfellow' ... «Scientific American, Feb 15»
8
Frogs you may not have heard of: Brazil's Cycloramphus `button frogs'
The long-suspected non-monophyly of Leptodactylidae sensu lato was acted on by Frost et al. (2006) who broke the group up into numerous ... «Scientific American, Jan 15»
9
Massive Genetic Study Confirms Birds Arose in "Big Bang"-Type of …
The non-monophyly of the birds of prey at the deepest branches of the Australaves and Afroaves radiations suggests that the common ancestor ... «Discovery Institute, Dec 14»
10
A fish, a rabbit — same thing, to a creationist
Cladogram with backbone constraint for cyclostome monophyly, and using rescaled consistency indices, showing the position of Metaspriggina ... «ScienceBlogs, Sep 14»

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