crossfeed

plural crossfeeds · alternative cross-feed · alternative xfeed

1. countableuncountablesoundThe process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording.
2. countableuncountableaeronauticsThe supplying of one fuel tank of an aircraft or rocket with fuel from another, or of an engine with fuel from a tank connected to a different engine.

present singular third person crossfeeds · participle present crossfeeding · participle past crossfed · past crossfed · alternative cross-feed · alternative xfeed

1. aeronauticsTo supply one fuel tank of an aircraft or rocket with fuel from another, or an engine with fuel from a tank connected to a different engine.
2. soundTo blend the left and right channels of a stereo recording.
3. biologyTo coexist on a single limiting resource where one strain or species grows on the primary resource and the second grows on the partially degraded resource excreted by the first.

   The emergence of crossfeeding interactions has been observed in long- term evolution experiments on E. coli in chemostats with glucose as the limiting resource

   2010, Michael P. H. Stumpf, Statistical and Evolutionary Analysis of Biological Networks, →ISBN, page 116

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   It is now recognized that crossfeeding does not occur with derivatives of the mouse L-cell line (such as A9) , nor with certain HeLa clones. However, crossfeeding does occur with other heteroploid mouse lines (3T3 and derivatives), hamster BHK-21 cells and derivatives, and diploid human fibroblasts.

   1976, John W. Littlefield, Variation, Senescence, and Neoplasia in Cultured Somatic Cells, →ISBN

   How can the results of crossfeeding trials be used to sequence mutant strains of the bacteria Serratia marsescens in the biosynthetic pathway for the production of prodigiosis?

   1985, Martha Robertson Taylor, Changing the meaning of experience