intrahelical

English

Etymology

From intra- +‎ helical.

Adjective

intrahelical (not comparable)

  1. Within a helix.
    • 2015 September 18, “Genetic Diversity and Natural Selection of the Plasmodium knowlesi Circumsporozoite Protein Nonrepeat Regions”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      In the present study, however, the nonrepeat regions was chosen for investigation because the central repeat region is overly diverse due to insertions/deletions during meiotic sexual recombination or intrahelical strand slippage during mitosis and sequence alignment of the repeat region is difficult and uncertain.
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