As a result the size of the B. aphidicola genome is greatly reduced, compared to its putative ancestor.

Homo habilis is generally accepted as the putative ancestor of the genus Homo, and often of H. ergaster most directly.

One extant analog of these putative ancestors is the earless monitor 'Lanthanotidae' of Borneo, although it also is semi-Aquatic animal.

Dogs can interbreed with wolves, their putative ancestor, and produce fertile offspring.

We, and bonobos, may better reflect a gentle nature of the putative ancestor.

One extant analog of these putative ancestors is the earless monitor Lanthanotus of Borneo (though it also is semi aquatic).

It is not until the Carboniferous that we start to find evidence of a variety of forms including the putative ancestors of some of the living dominant groups.

Their putative ancestors include the bacterial group II retroelements, the family of HtrA proteases and DNA bacteriophages.

Other problems center upon the identity of the putative common ancestor for the Lake Victoria superflock, and the ancestral lineages of Tanganyikan cichlids.

Eliot traces the line further back into primitive prehistory by an explicatory aligning of his protagonist and a putative ancestor, the Cyclops, who devoured Odysseus's comrades.