Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of multigene
In Drosophila melanogaster, the cecropin multigenes family consists of both four functional genes (Cecropin A1, A2, B and C), two pseudo-genes (Cecropin 1 and 2) and the functional genes coding for cecropins [21 ,22 ].
2015 November 7, “Cecropins from Plutella xylostella and Their Interaction with Metarhizium anisopliae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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