genospecies

English

Etymology

From geno- +‎ species.

Noun

genospecies (plural genospecies)

1. (genetics, taxonomy) A species (group of organisms that can interbreed) identified and characterised by means of genetics.
   • 1963 September, Arnold W. Ravin, “Experimental Approaches to the Study of Bacterial Phylogeny”, in The American Naturalist, volume 97, number 89, page 308:

     When their respective genotypes permit inter-bacterial genetic transfer and recombination, we may say that they belong to the same genospecies.

   • 1997, Carel J. van Oss, Immunological and Molecular Diagnosis of Infectious Disease:

     The genospecies complex of B. burgdorferi sensu lato has been divided into more than 4 distinct genospecies: B.burgdorferi sensu stricto (most North American isolates), Borrella garinii, Borrelia afzelii, Borrelia japonica, and other additional strains which do not fit into any of the specified genospecies.

   • 2015 July 6, “C6 Peptide-Based Multiplex Phosphorescence Analysis (PHOSPHAN) for Serologic Confirmation of Lyme Borreliosis”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The last two genospecies are etiologic agents of almost all LB cases in Russia, which encompasses the greater part of the range of B.

Related terms

• genospecific
• phenospecies