sex limitationn.
/ˌsɛks lɪmᵻˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsɛks ˌlɪməˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Genetics.
The influence of an individual's sex on the inheritance or manifestation of a genetic or phenotypic characteristic; an instance of this.See note at sex-limited adj. 1.
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sex limitation1908
sex linkage1912
sex control1931
1908 Biometrika 6 118 Hypophalangia is said to have passed through ten generations, and shown sex limitations in transmission.
1911 Jrnl. Genetics 1 189 The operation of the system of sex-limitation is similar in all these examples, the only difference being that in the one group the repulsion is from the factor F, in the other from the factor M.
1975 Jrnl. Zool. 177 329 Polymorphism in butterflies is complicated by various factors, notably sexual dimorphism and sex-limitation.
2006 Animal Behaviour 71 1000/1 The issue of how difficult it is to evolve sex limitation is a major question facing evolutionary biology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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