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allotype|ˈæləʊtaɪp|
[f. allo- + type n.1]
1. Taxonomy. A paratype of the opposite sex to the holotype.
1910R. A. Muttkowski in Bull. Public Museum Milwaukee I. 10 The following suggestions to designate the types properly are made: allotype..for the sex not designated by the holotype... It can be contained in the original as well as in any subsequent description by other authors. 1962Gordon & Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. liii. 325 Sometimes one of these ‘paratypes’ (always of the opposite sex to the holotype) is singled out and designated as the ‘allotype’. 1984Internat. Jrnl. Acarol. X. iii. 145 The male of Limnesia cooki Conroy and the male of Piona triangularis (Wolcott) are described from different locations in Wisconsin. The specimens are designated as Allotypes for the respective species.
2. Immunol. [a. F. allotype (J. Oudin 1956, in Compt. Rend. CCXLII. 2607).] An allotypic form of a protein or antigen.
1962Nature 25 Aug. 786/1 An allotype the molecules of which are known to carry one or more allotypic specificities will be designated..as follows: A3 or A1, 6. 1975Immunogenetics II. 288 That allotype markers exist should provide a convenient criterion for the survival of the B-cell graft. 1981T. Tada et al. in N. Fabris et al. Immunoregulation 3 Many other investigators looked for idiotypes which are linked to immunoglobulin allotype genes on suppressor T cells and their hybridomas. 1983Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. CDXVIII. 109 (heading) The role of rabbit immunoglobulin allotypes in an immune network. 1984W. H. Hildemann Essent. Immunol. v. 37 Allotypes are useful in forensic medicine, anthropology, and in genetic analysis of immune responses. |