dauermodification
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Dauer + English modification.
Noun
[edit]dauermodification (countable and uncountable, plural dauermodifications)
- 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[1]:
- 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) […]
References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dauermodification”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.