multichimeraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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multichimera (複数形 multichimeras)

1. (genetics) A chimera containing genetically distinct cells originating from three or more zygotes.
   • 2004, Jules Hoffmann, Primitive Immune Systems - Issue 198, page 31:

     The formation of Botryllus multichimeras sets the 'group level' (the assemblage of several genotypes into one unified entity) as the key level at which natural selection acts.

   • 2006, Rusty Morrison & ‎Ken Edward Keegan, ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction, ISBN 1890650188:

     Around the time of the events that led to your birth, there was no longer anything new even about multichimeras.

   • 2009, Baruch Rinkevich & Valeria Matranga, Stem Cells in Marine Organisms, ISBN 904812767X, page 12:

     However, it was suggested that potentially losing genotypes (defined as such in bi-chimeras scenario) might survive in multichimera entities as stem cells in refugia and successfully propagate to succeeding generations.

2. (physics) A complex spatiotemporal pattern consisting of multiple coexisting domains of synchronized dynamics within a domain of incoherent dynamics, produced by a system of nonlocally coupled oscillators.
   • 2016, Amitava Banerjee, Muktish Acharyya, “Synchronized, Chimera and Multichimera States in Simple Cellular Automata Model of Coupled Oscillators”, in arXiv^[1]:

     The multichimera state is shown to have a power law distribution of synchronized cluster sizes, whose exponent is found to be independent of the system parameters..