heteroxenic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Heteroxenia +‎ -ic

Adjective[edit]

heteroxenic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to soft corals of the genus Heteroxenia
    • 2015 October 3, “Understanding Host-Switching by Ecological Fitting”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      However, as we mentioned previously, we believe that the model is applicable to understanding similar processes in most symbioses, including heteroxenic associations (including more than one species of host in the life cycle) [27 –29 ].