adjective
- of or relating to genes or genetic markers that are transferred together during bacterial transduction
Usage: technical; microbiology
verb
- past tense and past participle of cotransduce; to transfer (genetic material) from one bacterial cell to another in a single transduction event
Usage: technical; microbiology
Examples
- The two genes were cotransduced into the recipient cell by the same phage particle.
- Cotransduced markers showed high linkage in the bacterial genome.
- Researchers cotransduced multiple antibiotic resistance genes using a single viral vector.
- The cotransduced DNA integrated into the chromosome at a single locus.
- Cotransduced genes are useful for mapping bacterial chromosomes.