bioprotective
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
bio- + protective
Adjective[edit]
bioprotective (comparative more bioprotective, superlative most bioprotective)
- biologically of biochemically protective
- 2015 July 11, “Against All Odds: Trehalose-6-Phosphate Synthase and Trehalase Genes in the Bdelloid Rotifer Adineta vaga Were Acquired by Horizontal Gene Transfer and Are Upregulated during Desiccation”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Nowadays, low trehalose levels found in some desiccation resistant animals like tardigrades or monogonont eggs, and in some plants, suggest that trehalose does not only act as bioprotective molecule but could be used alternatively as a signaling molecule.