underdominance

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ dominance.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

underdominance (uncountable)

  1. Less than normal dominance
    • 2015 October 21, “Hybridization between Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout and Rainbow Trout Alters the Expression of Muscle Growth-Related Genes and Their Relationships with Growth Patterns”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Hybrids display additive, dominant, and nonadditive (over- and underdominance) modes of inheritance for transcription regulation [8 –10 ].
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.