species-specificity

species-specific /spe·cies-spe·cif·ic/ (-spĕ-sif´ik)

1. characteristic of a particular species.

2. having a characteristic effect on, or interaction with, cells or tissues of members of a particular species; said of an antigen, drug, or infective agent.

species-specific

adj.

1. Limited to or found only in one species.

2. Of or being a serum that acts only upon a member of the same species as that from which the original antigen was obtained.

species-specific

Etymology: L, specere, to see, facere, to make

1 characteristic of a particular species.

2 having a characteristic effect on, or interaction with, cells, tissues, or membranes of a particular species, said of an antigen, drug, or infective agent.

species-specific [spe´shēz-spĕ-sif´ik]

characteristic of a particular species; having a characteristic effect on, or interaction with, cells or tissues of members of a particular species; said of an antigen, drug, or infective agent.

species-specific

characteristic of a particular species; having a characteristic effect on, or interaction with, cells or tissues of members of a particular species; said of an antigen, drug or infective agent.

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A chain
B chain
Coombs tests
cutaneous papilloma
cysticercosis
Cytomegalovirus
demodectic mange
Deprivation Experiment
despeciation
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
fibropapilloma
flagellin
imprinting
interferon
Interferon alpha
interferon beta
interferon gamma
louse
lungworm

Species-specificity and sensitivity of a PCR-based assay for Perkinsus marinus in the Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica: A comparison with the Fluid Thioglycollate Assay.

Development and validation of a real-time quantitative PCR assay for ... by De Faveri, Jacquelin; Smolowitz, Roxanna M.; Roberts, Steven B. / Journal of Shellfish Research

Such tick species-specificity of SFGR should be considered when speculating on any geopathologic relationships of rickettsioses among different SFGR-endemic areas.

Spotted fever group Rickettsia sp. closely related to R. japonica, ... by Takada, Nobuhiro; Fujita, Hiromi; Kawabata, Hiroki; Ando, Shuji; Sakata, Akiko; Takano, Ai; Chaithon / Emerging Infectious Diseases

The species-specificity of the bacterium active against black-fly larvae, for instance, "is extremely unusual for an insecticide," Molloy notes.

Dreissena disaster: scientists battle an invasion of zebra mussels by Walker, Tim / Science News