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Biological Phenomena > Species Specificity

Preferred term

Species Specificity  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • NIM; may refer to phylum, class, order, family, genus or strain as well as species

Scope note

  • The restriction of a characteristic behavior, anatomical structure or physical system, such as immune response; metabolic response, or gene or gene variant to the members of one species. It refers to that property which differentiates one species from another but it is also used for phylogenetic levels higher or lower than the species.

History note

  • 66(64)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013045

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