recombinationaladj.

1931 Amer. Naturalist 65 166 Whatever the cause of hybrid vigor may ultimately be found to be, whether..in some cases homozygous hybridity (recombinational from species' crosses), it would seem..[etc.].

1940 H. J. Muller in J. Huxley New Systematics 195 Recombinational forms of males, having the section of the left region of the chromosome in which scute-4 had been contained, and a section from..the right region of the scute-L8 chromosome, are sterile.

1959 Nature 14 Nov. 1594/1 A recessive lethal can be produced by recombinational instead of mutational change.

1978 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 49 4369 Recombinational excitation explains the variation in the opacity [of the plasma] with temperature.

1987 A. P. James & A. Nasin in A. H. Rose & J. S. Harrison Yeasts (ed. 2) II. iv. 77 It appears that the major mechanism for repair of damage by ultraviolet irradiation is recombinational rather than excisional.

2004 J. C. Avise Hope, Hype & Reality of Genetic Engin. iii. 26 The fodder for evolution is vast genetic variety which arises continually from mutations and from recombinational shuffling of DNA (notably via sexual reproduction in most species).

1961 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 47 550 These observations are most readily explained on the basis that the recombinationally discrete units are not functionally discrete.

1980 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 142 588 Integration..may be directed by a recombinationally active sequence on another replicon.

2005 Thin Solid Films 493 282/2 The grain boundaries in III–V polycrystalline films are recombinationally active.