subfamily
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The new findings challenge that view, offering strong evidence that the Podonominae subfamily most likely began in the Southern Hemisphere and later expanded worldwide.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
Some hematophages are well-known: For example, vampire bats in the subfamily Desmodontinae helped inspire the legendary monsters that bear their name and no one can forget blood-sucking mosquitoes and leeches.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
Horticulturist Qiang Xu of Huazhong Agricultural University in China and his colleagues recently set out to map the evolutionary journey of the orange subfamily.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023
Nasa poissoniana belongs to a subfamily of plants called Loasoideae.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2019
At the one extreme, Mandarin and its relatives, which constitute the Chinese subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family, are distributed continuously from North to South China.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Kane hopes that the vaccine strategy his team identified can be applied to other viruses -- other coronavirus subfamilies as well as other viruses such as influenza viruses.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
The tyrosine kinases evolved before yeast diverged from other eukaryotes, but the other fifty-five subfamilies of kinases evolved after yeast diverged.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
There is little overlap between rodent subfamilies and human-infective subfamilies, despite P. ovale being a sister taxa to the rodent-infecting species.
From Nature ● Jan. 24, 2017
Today, after several thousand years Noruz is the cornerstone of all the Iranian subfamilies being from northern China or Bulgaria.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
A controversial minority view is that of the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who groups all Native American languages other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene languages into a single large family, termed Amerind, with about a dozen subfamilies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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