disassortatively

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English

Etymology

From disassortative +‎ -ly.

Adverb

disassortatively (comparative more disassortatively, superlative most disassortatively)

  1. In a disassortative manner
    • 2015 July 17, “Mate Choice Drives Evolutionary Stability in a Hybrid Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      In fact, classic assortative mating is not possible to occur among the PAA genomotype because crosses between PAA males and females do not father PAA offspring, meaning PAA females have to mate disassortatively in order to produce offspring of their own type.