clade
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British biologist Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled "The three types of evolutionary process" in Nature. Doublet of cladus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kleɪd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
clade (plural clades)
- (systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
- 2001, Ross H. Nehm, 6: Linking Evolutionary Pattern and Development Process in Marginellid Gastropods, Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, Frank K. McKinney (editors), Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record, page 166,
- All three clades containing Prunum and “Volvarina” species contain morphological features that do not collectively appear in any other living or fossil marginellid species (see above).
- 2002, Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, page 1092,
- No one has ever tabulated the number or percentage of non-trending clades within larger monophyletic groups. The concept of a non-trending clade — the higher level analog of a species in stasis — has never been explicitly formulated at all. If only one percent of clades exhibited sustained trends, we would still focus our attention upon this tiny minority in telling our favored version of the story of life's history.
- 2004 September 11, Bob Holmes, Linnean naming system faces challengers, New Scientist, page 13,
- A clade is made up of an ancestral species and all its descendants; think of it as that part of an evolutionary tree that would fall off with a single saw cut.
- 2001, Ross H. Nehm, 6: Linking Evolutionary Pattern and Development Process in Marginellid Gastropods, Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, Frank K. McKinney (editors), Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record, page 166,
- (genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- cladal
- cladist
- cladistic
- cladistics
- cladogenesis
- cladogram
- crown clade
- monoclade
Translations
group
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Verb
clade (third-person singular simple present clades, present participle clading, simple past and past participle claded)
- To be part of a clade; to form a clade.
- 2009, Andrew J. Brown and C. Robin Hiley, "Is GPR55 an Anandamide Receptor?" in Anandamide An Endogenous Cannabinoid (Vitamins And Hormones, Vol. 81), p. 117:
- The phylogenetic tree for CiCBR shows it clades with the human cannabinoid receptors rather than with those other human GPCRs which most closely resemble the cannabinoid receptors.
- 2009, Andrew J. Brown and C. Robin Hiley, "Is GPR55 an Anandamide Receptor?" in Anandamide An Endogenous Cannabinoid (Vitamins And Hormones, Vol. 81), p. 117:
See also
- monophyletic
- phylogenetic
- taxon
- class, family, genus, kingdom, order, phylum, species
- taxonomy
Further reading
cladistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Cadle, E.D. Cal., cadel, decal, laced
Catalan
Etymology
From English clade.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈkla.də/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈkla.de/
Noun
clade m (plural clades)
- clade
Related terms
- cladística
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klad/
Noun
clade m (plural clades)
- clade
- branch
Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin clādēs (“breaking; destruction”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkla.de/
- Rhymes: -ade
- Hyphenation: clà‧de
Noun
clade f (plural cladi)
- (literary) massacre
- Synonyms: massacro, sterminio, strage
Further reading
- clade in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- calde
Latin
Noun
clāde
- ablative singular of clādēs