Definition: 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.
NIM; may refer to phylum, class, order, family, genus or strain as well as species
Other names Specificity, Species; Specificities, Species; Species Specificities
