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Descriptor English: Species Specificity
Descriptor Spanish: Especificidad de la Especie
Descriptor especificidad de especies
Scope note: Restricción de una conducta, estructura anatómica o sistema físico característico, como una respuesta inmunitaria, respuesta metabólica o gen o variante génica a los miembros de una especie. Hace referencia a la propiedad que diferencia una especie de otra pero se emplea también en relación con niveles filogenéticos superiores o inferiores que la especie.
Descriptor Portuguese: Especificidade da Espécie
Descriptor French: Spécificité d'espèce
Entry term(s): Species Specificities
Specificities, Species
Specificity, Species
Tree number(s): G16.824
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013045
Scope note: The restriction of a characteristic behavior, anatomical structure or physical system, such as immune response; metabolic response, or gene or gene variant to the members of one species. It refers to that property which differentiates one species from another but it is also used for phylogenetic levels higher or lower than the species.
Annotation: NIM; may refer to phylum, class, order, family, genus or strain as well as species
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 66
History Note: 66(64)
DeCS ID: 13428
Unique ID: D013045
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Species Specificity - Preferred
Concept UI M0020221
Scope note The restriction of a characteristic behavior, anatomical structure or physical system, such as immune response; metabolic response, or gene or gene variant to the members of one species. It refers to that property which differentiates one species from another but it is also used for phylogenetic levels higher or lower than the species.
Preferred term Species Specificity
Entry term(s) Species Specificities
Specificities, Species
Specificity, Species



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