nucleotypic

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nucleotypic (not comparable)

  1. Describing any effect due solely to the size of an organism's (nuclear) genome
    • 2015 July 25, “Evolutionary and Taxonomic Implications of Variation in Nuclear Genome Size: Lesson from the Grass Genus Anthoxanthum (Poaceae)”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Because nuclear genome size of may affect several phenotypic and developmental characteristics irrespective of the information coded in the DNA (i.e., the nucleotypic effect; [71 ]), we speculate that the variation we found in nuclear genome size represents adaptation to different environmental conditions.
  2. Relating to a nucleotype