dauermodification

plural dauermodifications

1. countableuncountableThe persistence of an abnormal characteristic – generally an environmentally induced trait – over several generations of the organism. Such characteristics are inherited through the cytoplasm and tend to disappear after a few generations.

   Cytoplasmic inheritance or dauermodification are considered the most likely explanations for this difference in photoperiod reaction.

   1979 April 12, J. C. Sanford, R. E. Hanneman, “Reciprocal differences in the photoperiod reaction of hybrid populations in Solanum tuberosum”, in American Journal of Potato Research

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   ... dauermodification, but after a second autogamy, and also after a succeeding conjugation, the dauermodification appeared again. A more convincing demonstration of the calcium dauermodification was later made by Orlova (1941)[…]

   (Can we date this quote?), The Genetics of Paramecium Aurelia, CUP Archive, page 152