intrahelical en · ADJ
Etymology
From intra- + helical.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Within a helix.
In the present study, however, the nonrepeat regions was chosen for investigation because the central repeat region is overly diverse due to insertions/deletions during meiotic sexual recombination or intrahelical strand slippage during mitosis and sequence alignment of the repeat region is difficult and uncertain.
2015 September 18, “Genetic Diversity and Natural Selection of the Plasmodium knowlesi Circumsporozoite Protein Nonrepeat Regions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: