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bdelloplasts

bdelloplasts is the plural of bdelloplast.

Meaning of bdelloplast

Noun

bdelloplast (plural bdelloplasts)

  1. A modified cell formed in the host of a parasitic Bdellovibrio bacterium
    • Thus we speculate that Bd-NDPSase periplasmic location might be associated with metabolizing host material in the bdelloplast after the 30 minutes initial invasion of the prey cell.2015 November 3, “Structural and Enzymatic Characterization of a Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugar Hydrolase from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about bdelloplasts

What is bdelloplasts the plural of?
Bdelloplasts is the plural of bdelloplast.

Words near bdelloplasts in the dictionary

  1. bdellometers
  2. bdellomicrovirus
  3. bdellomicroviruses
  4. bdelloplast
  5. bdelloplasting
  6. bdelloplasts
  7. bdellotomy
  8. bdellourid
  9. bdellourids
  10. bdelygmia
  11. BDEs

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