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clonal
[klō′nəl]
pertaining to a clone.

clonal
referring to a clone.

clonal expansion
occurs, for example, when B cells, under the influence of T cell interleukins, differentiate into two separate populations and, after several transformations produce sensitized B lymphocytes and plasma cells.


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Although Leishmania parasites reproduce clonally, there has been no proof that they can exchange genes through sex and form hybrids.
Severe Staphylococcus aureus infections caused by clonally related community-acquired methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant isolates.
Second, the fixation of different alleles between the two species may be confounded by recombination, resulting in longer evolutionary timeframes for lineage assortment to occur than what would be expected for mtDNA, which is typically nonrecombinant and clonally inherited.
 
 
 
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