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peritelomeric

peritelomeric adjective: surrounding a telomere.

Adjective

peritelomeric (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding a telomere
    • However, the location of the gender locus also varied among different poplars, with a peritelomeric localization in members of the Aigeiros [28 ] and Tacamahaca subgenera [10 ], and a centromeric localization in subgenera of Leuce [27, 29, 30, 64 ].2016 February 2, “Confirmation of Single-Locus Sex Determination and Female Heterogamety in Willow Based on Linkage Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of peritelomeric

From peri- + telomeric.

Questions about peritelomeric

What does peritelomeric mean?
Peritelomeric means surrounding a telomere.
What part of speech is peritelomeric?
Peritelomeric is an adjective.

Words near peritelomeric in the dictionary

  1. peritectoidically
  2. peritectomies
  3. peritectomy
  4. peritelomere
  5. peritelomeres
  6. peritelomeric
  7. peritendinous
  8. peritendon
  9. peritendonous
  10. peritendons
  11. peritenon

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