heteroplasy是什么意思

n.组织变形

1. One potential explanation for the heteroplasy observed in these traits is convergent evolution.
2. The presence of heteroplasy complicates the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships among species.

the occurrence of a difference in a character state between two or more phylogenetically related organisms, or between two or more regions in the same organism, that is not the result of inheritance from a common ancestor with the same character state