heterochronic

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het·e·ro·chron·y

 (hĕt′ə-rō-krŏn′ē)
n.
A change or set of changes in the timing or duration of an organism's ontogenetic development compared with an ancestral species, resulting in morphological differences between ancestor and descendant.

[hetero- + Greek khronos, time + -y.]

het′e·ro·chron′ic, het′e·ro·chron′ous adj.
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heterochronic

(ˌhɛtərəʊˈkrɒnɪk) or

heterochronous

adj
(Biology) biology occurring at different times or stages
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elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14.
Conservation of the heterochronic regulator Lin-28, its developmental expression and microRNA complementary sites.
JM & AC: Tom Rando of Stanford University announced in 2005 that heterochronic (different stages of development) parabiosis, where two mice of different ages were conjoined by surgery, restored the livers and muscles of the older one.
Ruvkun, "Posttranscriptional regulation of the heterochronic gene lin-14 by lin-4 mediates temporal pattern formation in C.
Morrison, "A network of heterochronic genes including Imp1 regulates temporal changes in stem cell properties," eLife, vol.
Slack et al., "Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA," Nature, vol.
This inhomogeneous rhythm is called heterochronic development, in this case it is presented that there are periods of slow development and others of intense development, according to (J.
In this case, we report a case of SAM with heterochronic vessel rupture of the splenic and common hepatic arteries, treated by surgical intervention and coil embolization.
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