transductionn.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Transduction, a leading over, a removing from one place to another.

1816 J. Bentham Introductory View 19 in Extract Constit. Code: Official Aptitude Maximized In lieu of adduction,—as the purpose requires, will be subjoined abduction, transduction,..and so forth.

1947 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 19 307/1 It is rather interesting..that the direct method of electronic transduction, instead of the indirect method of employing a conventional transducer and then amplifying the output with a vacuum tube, has not been developed.

1970 J. Earl How to choose Tuners & Amplifiers iv. 87 Low impedance pickup cartridges..using the moving-coil principle of transduction.

1975 Nature 17 Apr. 625/1 The transduction of light energy into neural signals is mediated in all known visual systems by a common type of visual pigment.

1952 Zinder & Lederberg in Jrnl. Bacteriol. LXIV. 681 To help the further exposition of our experiments, we shall use the term transduction for genetically unilateral transfer in contrast to the union of equivalent elements in fertilization.

1960 F. Jacob et al. in Symp. Soc. Gen. Microbiol. X. 77 The similarities observed between this process, which might be called F-duction or sex-duction, and transduction with phage are extremely striking.

1971 Nature 18 June 466/1 It has been suggested that transduction of genes by viruses was an important mechanism in evolution for spreading useful mutations between organisms not formally related.

1977 Lancet 9 July 94/2 These were derived by selection of sensitive variants from gentamicin-resistant strains or by transduction of this resistance to sensitive strains.

1956 Genetics 41 845 (heading) Linear inheritance in transductional clones.

1980 Jrnl. Gen. Microbiol. 119 51 Transductional analysis revealed that one of the four mutations carried by strain T-693 was responsible for constitutive synthesis of both isoleucine and threonine biosynthetic enzymes.