tetraparental
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tetraparental (not comparable)
- Involving four parents, but especially involving two integrated but genetically different embryos
- 2015 July 28, Cecilia M. Thompson, Karen L. Visick, “Assessing the function of STAS domain protein SypA in Vibrio fischeri using a comparative analysis”, in Frontiers in Microbiology[1], volume 6, :
- All pARM47-based constructs contain two promoters, the vector-containing lac promoter and the sypA promoter, and were inserted into the chromosomal Tn 7 site of V. fischeri strains using tetraparental conjugation ( McCann et al., 2003 ).