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  • noun genetics The genome of all the strains of a particular species (typically of bacteria)

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From pan- +‎ genome

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  • It is looking more and more as though the biosphere is an interconnected network of continuously circulated genes – a "pangenome", to use the term recently coined by microbiologist Victor Tetz of St Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University in Russia.

    New Scientist, 30 August 2008

    August 30, 2008