Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sexless, encysted stage of certain tapeworms, as Bothriocephalus. If imperfectly cooked fish infested with the parasite in this stage is eaten by man, the metacestode develops into the mature tapeworm. Also called
plerocestode .
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- noun The
larval stage of atapeworm
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The numerous ambiguities in our sequences, and the fact that several genes encoding slightly different isoforms can be isolated from a single metacestode, suggests that the number of eg95 copies in the Echinococcus genome might have been underestimated.
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The numerous ambiguities in our sequences, and the fact that several genes encoding slightly different isoforms can be isolated from a single metacestode, suggests that the number of eg95 copies in the Echinococcus genome might have been underestimated.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Karen Luisa Haag et al. 2009
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