Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The right description of things.
  • noun The correct use of words.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The right description of things.

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  • noun Correct speaking or the correct use of words.

Etymologies

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ortho- + -logy

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Examples

  • These methods rely heavily on evolutionary comparisons of common ancestral protein sequences ie. orthology.

    NAS and NSTA Deny Copyright Permission for Kansas Standards - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • A phylogenetic analysis revealed that HEX 110 is located at the most basal position among the holometabola hexamerins, and like HEX 70a and HEX 70c, it shares potential orthology relationship with hexamerins from other hymenopteran species.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Juliana Martins 2010

  • A phylogenetic analysis revealed that HEX 110 is located at the most basal position among the holometabola hexamerins, and like HEX 70a and HEX 70c, it shares potential orthology relationship with hexamerins from other hymenopteran species.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • When orthology is unambiguous, proteins in the different species generally retain the same function, essentially when the function is critical to survival

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Parveen Sharma et al. 2010

  • A phylogenetic analysis revealed that HEX 110 is located at the most basal position among the holometabola hexamerins, and like HEX 70a and HEX 70c, it shares potential orthology relationship with hexamerins from other hymenopteran species.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • A phylogenetic analysis revealed that HEX 110 is located at the most basal position among the holometabola hexamerins, and like HEX 70a and HEX 70c, it shares potential orthology relationship with hexamerins from other hymenopteran species.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Juliana Martins 2010

  • As a consequence, our IPC score is useful as an additional discriminating factor when assigning orthology.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Anna Henricson 2010

  • In order to obtain insights into the differences in transcriptional regulation between these parasites we compared the orthology profiles of putative malaria transcription factors across species and examined the enrichment patterns of four binding sites across eleven apicomplexans.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • For this reason, it could be possible to use conservation of intron positions as a discriminating factor when assigning orthology.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Anna Henricson 2010

  • It confirms the approach of mining large scale datasets as a robust method to define reference genes, but cautions against using gene orthology or counterparts of reference genes in other plant species as a means of defining reference genes.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Reena Narsai 2010

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