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  • noun Plural form of congeneric.

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  • A few kilometers outside the Park and summit area, congenerics found include the legume Adenocarpus foliosus, the bugloss Echium virescens and the daisy Argynantemum frutescens.

    Teide National Park, Spain 2008

  • Inter-species transmission through environmental contamination with this novel bacterium, whose congenerics display male-bias and have links to infirmity in seals and terrestrial mammals (including humans), highlights the need to further evaluate disease risks posed by alien invasive mice to native species, on this and other islands.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2008

  • Figure 1) and has several congenerics of limited habitat tolerance, including some of conservation concern

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Melanie Norgate et al. 2009

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