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micropalynology en · NOUN

Etymology

From micro- + palynology.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The study of pollen traces
    • To date, comparisons of micropalynology and metagenetics indicate that the latter is effective in identifying pollen sources, but read counts may not be consistently related to visual counts. 2015 December 24, “Taxonomic Characterization of Honey Bee ( Apis mellifera ) Pollen Foraging Based on Non-Overlapping Paired-End Sequencing of Nuclear Ribosomal Loci”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: