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  • adjective Of or pertaining to heterosis
  • adjective physics Describing a hybrid form of string theory (See Heterotic string on Wikipedia)

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Examples

  • Once established in a deme, a negatively heterotic one with a selective disadvantage for heterozygotes–DW gene arrangement can spread in homozygous form through a subdivided population by random local extinction and colonization.

    The Panda's Thumb: Arthur Hunt Archives 2010

  • Hedrick and Levin 1984 suggested a mechanism that greatly increases the probability of fixation for negatively heterotic chromosome rearrangements during migration and colonization of other demes.

    The Panda's Thumb: Arthur Hunt Archives 2010

  • Hedrick and Levin 1984 suggested a mechanism that greatly increases the probability of fixation for negatively heterotic chromosome rearrangements during migration and colonization of other demes.

    The Rise of Human Chromosome 2: Beyond the Deme - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • Hedrick and Levin 1984 suggested a mechanism that greatly increases the probability of fixation for negatively heterotic chromosome rearrangements during migration and colonization of other demes.

    The Panda's Thumb: September 2009 Archives 2009

  • Once established in a deme, a negatively heterotic one with a selective disadvantage for heterozygotes–DW gene arrangement can spread in homozygous form through a subdivided population by random local extinction and colonization.

    The Rise of Human Chromosome 2: Beyond the Deme - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • There are types I and II strings of subtype A and B and the closed heterotic string.

    Einstein Still Rules, Says Fermi Telescope Team | Universe Today 2009

  • Once established in a deme, a negatively heterotic one with a selective disadvantage for heterozygotes–DW gene arrangement can spread in homozygous form through a subdivided population by random local extinction and colonization.

    The Panda's Thumb: September 2009 Archives 2009

  • This presumably requires physics which appeals to the heterotic group E_8, or in string theory the complexified CE_8 = E_8xE_8, which is a model of the heterotic string.

    What’s the (Dark) Matter? John 2008

  • But we know, for instance, that in the heterotic example I discussed above, the string threshold corrections are expressed in terms of the Dedekind function in terms of the moduli which has nothing to do with N = 1 D = 4 SUGRA couplings.

    String Theory is Losing the Public Debate Sean 2007

  • In the early 1980's, I began to work on string theory again and in 1984, together with a group of younger collaborators, discovered the heterotic string, which at the time seemed to offer the possibility of explaining the

    David J. Gross - Autobiography 2005

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