verb
- to transduce (transfer genetic material) together or simultaneously, especially in bacterial genetics when two genes are packaged together in a single phage particle
Usage: technical; biology; genetics
Examples
- The two bacterial genes were cotransduced by the same phage particle.
- When genes are cotransduced, they are inherited together more frequently than would occur by chance.
- Researchers used cotransduction to map the relative positions of genes on the bacterial chromosome.
- The cotransduction frequency indicated that the two markers were located close together on the genome.