ribospecies

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English

Etymology

From ribo- +‎ species.

Noun

ribospecies (plural ribospecies)

  1. A species identified or characterized by ribotyping
    • 2015 November 19, “Bone-Eating Worms Spread: Insights into Shallow-Water Osedax (Annelida, Siboglinidae) from Antarctic, Subantarctic, and Mediterranean Waters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      Thus, Oceanospirillales endosymbionts occurring in shallow-water Osedax comprise now a polyphyletic assemblage of ribospecies including Rs1, Rs3, and Rs7 [32 ], which suggests that there is no segregation between shallow- and deep-water Oceanospirillales ribospecies in Osedax.