dauermodificationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dauermodification (countable and uncountable, plural dauermodifications)

1. The 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.
   • 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:

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

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

     ... 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) […]

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dauermodification”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.