Agarolytic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    destructive to agar

    "Here we performed advanced microbial taxonomies combined with both genome-based and classical approaches for new agarolytic vibrio isolates to describe not only a novel Vibrio species but also a member of a new Vibrio clade."

Example

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"Here we performed advanced microbial taxonomies combined with both genome-based and classical approaches for new agarolytic vibrio isolates to describe not only a novel Vibrio species but also a member of a new Vibrio clade."

Etymology

From agar + -o- + -lytic.

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