cytoplasmicadj.

1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 603 During the cell-division, when the division was almost ended, little cytoplasmic portions become included in the young cell wall.

1899 J. R. Green Soluble Ferments xxii. 382 An eosinophilous substance diffused out of the nucleus into the cytoplasmic zone.

1920 L. Doncaster Introd. Study Cytol. vii. 91 (heading) The cytoplasmic structures in spermatogenesis and oogenesis.

1968 H. Harris Nucleus & Cytoplasm i. 8 The expression of the genetic information is effected by means of cytoplasmic regulatory mechanisms.

1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) xv. 866 All the differentiating daughter cells descended from one maturing spermatogonium remain connected by cytoplasmic bridges.

2007 Nature 19 July 228/3 Researchers have uncovered part of the mechanism underlying autophagy, the process by which cells digest and recycle cytoplasmic proteins and organelles.

1915 Bot. Gaz. 60 455 The writer was inclined to believe that..cytoplasmic inheritance might account for the matroclinic crosses.

1959 Nature 3 Oct. 1013/2 To some extent, recognition or denial of the existence of cytoplasmic inheritance depends upon one's definition of heredity.

2003 Cell 115 879/1 A similar mechanism [sc. conformational change in prions] might explain the unusual dominant, cytoplasmic inheritance of certain traits in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1931 M. M. Rhoades in Science 27 Mar. 340/2 Cytoplasmic inheritance of male sterility in Zea mays.]

1941 New Phytologist 40 63 Cytoplasmic male sterility is an outbreeding mechanism particularly sensitive to changes in the hybridity requirements of a species.

1984 Adv. Genetics 22 67 Diversity in mtDNA [= mitochondrial DNA] is found in races of maize carrying mutations for cytoplasmic male sterility.

2003 Sunflower Oct.–Nov. 17/1 The breeding process involves ‘cytoplasmic male sterility’, a means of controlling pollination so that only the desired cross is obtained, and selfing of the seed parent is eliminated.

1925 Amer. Naturalist 59 219 Unless the oocytes of the F₁ generation hybrid be in such an unstable state chromosomally and cytoplasmically.

1974 Nature 8 Mar. 136/1 Presumably it is sequestered cytoplasmically in such a manner that it is not degraded rapidly by mitochondrial monoamine oxidase.

2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 37 Wolbachia are a widespread group of bacteria that are inherited cytoplasmically and cause a range of reproductive changes in arthropods, especially insects.