(of a molecule) having two genetically different components
A chimaeric antibiotic-resistance gene as a selectable marker for plant-cell transformation
Examples of 'chimaeric' in a sentence
chimaeric
The motif has undergone concerted evolution events independently of its neighbouring protein-coding regions, leading to formation of evolutionary chimaeric genes.
Ponting Chris P, Winter Eitan E 2005, 'Mammalian BEX, WEX and GASP genes: Coding and non-codingchimaerism sustained by gene conversion events', BMC Evolutionary Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/5/54. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
No significant differences in replication rate were detected between wild-type and chimaeric viruses in cell culture.
Maxim A. Khasnatinov, Andrew Tuplin, Dmitri J. Gritsun, Mirko Slovak, Maria Kazimirova,Martina Lickova, Sabina Havlikova, Boris Klempa, Milan Labuda, Ernest A. Gould, TamaraS. Gritsun 2016, 'Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Structural Proteins Are the Primary Viral Determinantsof Non-Viraemic Transmission between Ticks whereas Non-Structural Proteins AffectCytotoxicity', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0158105. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)