phenotypic lag

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phenotypic lag (uncountable)

  1. (genetics) a delay in the expression of a phenotype acquired by mutation.
    • 1973, Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis:
      Phenotypic lag is the delayed phenotypic manifestation off a gene mutation (in additional to mutational lag).
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