allotypen.
/ˈalətʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈælətaɪp/ 1. Taxonomy. A designated paratype of the opposite sex to the holotype.
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1910 R. A. Muttkowski in Bull. Public Museum Milwaukee 1 10 The following suggestions to designate the types properly are made: allotype..for the sex not designated by the holotype.
1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. 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’.
2008 D. E. Bright & P. Bouchard Weevils Canada & Alaska II. 264 The holotype, allotype, and 21 paratypes are in the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
2. Immunology. A genetically determined variant form of a protein.
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1960 Nature 2 July 71/1 Guinea pig serum factor may be likened to..the gamma-globulin allotypes of rabbits.
1984 W. H. Hildemann Essent. Immunol. v. 37 Allotypes are useful in forensic medicine, anthropology, and in genetic analysis of immune responses.
2007 A. P. Kelly & J. Trowsdale in A. Wright & N. Hastie Genes & Common Dis. ix. 148/2 These allotypes may become less common in that population and eventually new variants of the pathogen may emerge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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