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ribospecies

ribospecies noun: a species identified or characterized by ribotyping.

Noun

ribospecies (plural ribospecies)

  1. A species identified or characterized by ribotyping
    • Thus, Oceanospirillales endosymbionts occurring in shallow-water Osedax comprise now a polyphyletic assemblage of ribospecies including Rs1, Rs3, and Rs7 [32 ], which suggests that there is no segregation between shallow- and deep-water Oceanospirillales ribospecies in Osedax.2015 November 19, “Bone-Eating Worms Spread: Insights into Shallow-Water Osedax (Annelida, Siboglinidae) from Antarctic, Subantarctic, and Mediterranean Waters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of ribospecies

pluralribospecies

Origin of ribospecies

From ribo- + species.

Questions about ribospecies

What does ribospecies mean?
Ribospecies means a species identified or characterized by ribotyping.
What part of speech is ribospecies?
Ribospecies is a noun.
What is the plural of ribospecies?
The plural of ribospecies is ribospecies.

Words near ribospecies in the dictionary

  1. ribosomes
  2. ribosomic
  3. ribosomically
  4. ribosomopathies
  5. ribosomopathy
  6. ribospecies
  7. ribostamycin
  8. ribosugar
  9. ribosugars
  10. riboswitch
  11. riboswitches

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