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paramutagenic en · ADJ

Etymology

From para- + mutagenic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to, or causing paramutation
    • The results differ from classical examples of paramutation, which is a phenomenon of gene-silencing where a paramutagenic allele has the ability to silence the paramutable allele, and paramutable alleles gain the ability to be paramutagenic. 2016 March 2, “Strain Specific Factors Control Effector Gene Silencing in Phytophthora sojae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: