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sexduction Microbiology.|sɛksˈdʌkʃən|
Also sex-duction.
[Blend of sex n. and transduction.]
The transfer of part of a bacterial genome from one bacterium to another by a sex factor.
1960[see F III. 1 l]. 1964G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. x. 277 It is possible by exploiting a special phenomenon, known as sex-duction, to bring about a stable state of diploidy for a short length of the chromosome containing all the genes involved in the lactose system. 1974Molecular & Gen. Genetics CXXX. 99 The number of sexductants in a λ-immune recipient is not significantly affected while sexduction into a non-immune recipient is increased by a factor 10–20. |