Meanings
adjectiveheteroxenic (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to soft corals of the genus Heteroxenia
However, as we mentioned previously, we believe that the model is applicable to understanding similar processes in most symbioses, including heteroxenic associations (including more than one species of host in the life cycle) [27 –29 ].
2015 October 3, “Understanding Host-Switching by Ecological Fitting”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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