Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of cytoform
Relative to the Simulium subgeneric standard [24 ], fixed inversions IL-1, IL-2, IL-6, and IL-7, autosomal inversion IL-5 (shown here as fixed [underlined] in cytoform ‘A’, but polymorphic or absent in other cytoforms), and heteroband 31hb (heterozygous) are present.
2016 January 26, “Cryptic Biodiversity and the Origins of Pest Status Revealed in the Macrogenome of Simulium colombaschense (Diptera: Simuliidae), History’s Most Destructive Black Fly”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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