sexductionn.
/sɛksˈdʌkʃn/, U.S. /sɛksˈdəkʃ(ə)n/ Microbiology.
The transfer of part of a bacterial genome from one bacterium to another by a sex factor.
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translocation1921
transposition1924
introgression1938
introgressive hybridization1938
sexduction1960
transgenosis1973
1960 F. Jacob et al. in Symp. Soc. Gen. Microbiol. 10 77 The similarities observed between this process, which might be called F-duction or sex-duction, and transduction with phage are extremely striking.
1974 Molecular & Gen. Genetics 130 99 The number of sexductants in a λ-immune recipient is not significantly affected while sexduction into a non-immune recipient is increased by a factor 10–20.
1988 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85 7036/1 Prokaryotes provide several alternative pathways of recombination—conjugation, transformation, transduction, sexduction, etc.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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