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What does monophyletic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (biology) Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
  2. (biology) Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
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The plant mariner-like elements were used as a monophyletic out-group, a position suggested by previous analyses.
They proposed a monophyletic clade that includes primates, the tree shrew, the flying lemur, rabbit, and rodents.
Because the taxa are not reciprocally monophyletic, we cannot date the actual speciation event.
We extended the analysis to the five cowbird species that conform a monophyletic group in the phylogeny.
Based on the additional support of molecular data, we hereafter use the name Zenarchopteridae for this monophyletic group of halfbeaks.
Most of the traditionally recognized subgenera of Anchusa are also supported as monophyletic groups by both nuclear and plastid sequence data.

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