Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to phylogeny or phylogenetics.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as phylogenic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.

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  • adjective systematics Of, or relating to phylogeny or phylogenetics
  • adjective of, or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms

Etymologies

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phylo- +‎ genetic

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Examples

  • Furthermore, a priori assumptions in phylogenetic analyses, such as long-branch attraction can bias phylogenetic tree analysis.

    A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007

  • The fantastically-named Congo forest mouse Deomys ferrugineus (sometimes called the Link mouse) is another similar long-footed form of uncertain phylogenetic position.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Whether Euchoreutes is actually a member of either of the two dipodid clades that have been recognised in phylogenetic studies of this group - Dipodinae and Allactaginae (Shenbrot 1992) - remains uncertain.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Now Dr Michael Lee of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, Australia, has repeated the exercise using the same technique, known as phylogenetic analysis, only this time applying a more sophisticated statistical method.

    Archaeopteryx regains its perch on the bird family tree 2011

  • Gibbs said that might have been a coincidence, but the unusual placement of the virus on what what virologists call phylogenetic trees-a sort of schematic family history of the virus -- also peeked his interest.

    Virologist to make his case for lab origin of swine flu 2009

  • But recently a small cadre of evolutionary biologists has argued for reforming the accepted nomenclature to more closely reflect evolution using an approach called phylogenetic taxonomy.

    What's in a Name? The Future of Life 2007

  • But recently a small cadre of evolutionary biologists has argued for reforming the accepted nomenclature to more closely reflect evolution using an approach called phylogenetic taxonomy.

    What's in a Name? The Future of Life 2007

  • Evolutionary biologists have long been able to build family trees of related species, called phylogenetic trees.

    Ars Technica John Timmer 2011

  • Using a method of comparing genetic characteristics, called phylogenetic analysis, the researchers studied a group of men who had sexually transmitted their HIV virus to other men.

    Analysis 2010

  • Using a method of comparing genetic characteristics, called phylogenetic analysis, the researchers studied a group of men who had sexually transmitted their HIV viruses; in this way the team was able to determine the source of rapidly mutating HIV viruses by analyzing the viral sequences extracted from the blood and semen of HIV transmitting partners.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

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