nonamniote en · NOUN
Etymology
From non- + amniote.
Meanings
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An organism that is not an amniote.
If homologous sequences and transcription evidence could be found across all amniotes, but not in the nonamniote species, then the age of the locus was set as the approximate age of the amniote lineage.
2015 August 12, R. Axel W. Wiberg et al., “Assessing Recent Selection and Functionality at Long Noncoding RNA Loci in the Mouse Genome”, in Genome Biology and Evolution, volume 7, →DOI:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nonamniotes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |