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subfamily

[ US /ˈsəbˌfæməɫi/ ]
NOUN
  1. (biology) a taxonomic category below a family

How To Use subfamily In A Sentence

  • L1-CAM, together with other members of the L1 subfamily, is critical for several early development processes like axon outgrowth, fasciculation, neuronal migration and survival PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • In the subfamily Bryocorinae, the mirids are separated into two tribes, Monaloniini or Odoniellini.
  • According to Ethnologue. com, the Chol belong to the Chol-Chontal subfamily of the Maya Linguistic Group. Campeche: on the edge of the Maya world
  • The berries in the most derived clade (Olmstead et al.'s subfamily ‘Solanoideae’) are all morphologically similar, with two carpels, axile placentation and mostly lenticular seeds.
  • In the early nineteenth century, language historians identified German as a member of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
  • As the branchiae found in Dendronereis and Dendronereides might not be homologous, he considered it wrong to unite the two genera in a subfamily.
  • Many genera in the subfamily Ambleminae, tribe Lampsilini exhibit sexual dimorphism.
  • In each case pairs were constructed with species from the same tribe or subfamily.
  • But apparently the spinecheek anemonefish doesn't belong to the subfamily of anemonefishes (Amphiprioninae) but to another genus of damselfishes: Premnas Planet Atheism
  • The peptide subfamily of GPCR contains receptors that bind a disparate array of peptides, such as angiotensin, bradykinin, opioid, somatostatin, and chemokines.
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