Definition of Cladogram

1. Noun. A tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships.

Generic synonyms: Tree, Tree Diagram

Definition of Cladogram

1. Noun. (taxonomy) A branching treelike graphical representation of the phylogenetic relationships between organisms showing which taxa have branched from common ancestors. ¹

2. Noun. (phylogenetics) A phylogenetic tree that is strictly the outcome of a cladistic analysis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cladogram

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cladogram

cladist
cladistic
cladistically
cladistics
cladists
clado-
cladoceran
cladocerans
cladode
cladodes
cladodial
cladogeneses
cladogenesis
cladogenetic
cladogram (current term)
cladograms
cladophore
cladophyll
cladophylls
cladoptosis
cladosporiosis
cladosporium
cladoxylopsid
cladoxylopsids
cladribine
clads
cladus
claes
clafouti

Literary usage of Cladogram

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"Their procedures utilize the cladogram structure from the above estimation ... The statistical analysis allows ambiguity in the cladogram estimation and is ..."

2. Fossil Elephantoids from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon E. Kalb, Assefa Mebrate (1993)
"Geographical cladogram of late Neogene Proboscidea (from Kalb et al. 1992b, Fig. 2). Bold lines refer to known or possible (dashed) distribution of taxa in ..."

3. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Meanwhile, we illustrate our hypothesis here in the form of a cladogram (fig. 2), upon which we have also superimposed our preferred hypotheses for the ..."

4. Handbook of Biodiversity Valuation: A Guide for Policy Makers by Dominic Moran, Dan Biller (2002)
"... intrinsic uniqueness embodied in taxonomic structure, Weitzman derives a method for prioritising interventions among species represented by a cladogram. ..."

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