Reticulation is a net-like pattern, arrangement, or structure. Reticulation or Reticulated may refer to: *

Reticulation (single-access key) In biology, a reticulation of a single-access identification key connects different branches of the identification tree to improve error tolerance and identification success. In a reticulated key, multiple paths lead to the same result; the tree d ...

, a structure of an identification tree, where there are several possible routes to a correct identification * A coloration pattern of some animals (e.g. the

reticulated giraffe The reticulated giraffe (''Giraffa reticulata'' or ''Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata'') is a species/subspecies of giraffe native to the Horn of Africa. It is differentiated from other types of giraffe by its coat, which consists of large, p ...

) * An arrangement of veins in a leaf, with the veins interconnected like a network * The

endoplasmic reticulum The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a part of a transportation system of the eukaryote, eukaryotic cell, and has many other important functions such as protein folding. The word endoplasmic means "within the cytoplasm", and reticulum is Latin for ...

within a cell, often resembling a net * A

phylogenetic network A phylogenetic network is any graph used to visualize evolutionary relationships (either abstractly or explicitly) between nucleotide sequences, genes, chromosomes, genomes, or species. They are employed when reticulation events such as hybridi ...

, the result when hybrid speciation, introgression and paraphyletic speciation is applied to a phylogenetic tree * Reticulated water (Australia, South Africa), water from a piped network rather than from a bore or well, see: wiktionary:reticulated water * Reticulation (metalwork), a decorative technique in metalworking

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