BioConcepts

plasmonPlasmon (ger.)

• The totality of cytoplasmic or extranuclear genetic factors; the part of a cell's genetic material that resides outside the nucleus. (OED 2012)
  category heredity

  1926

  Dieses genetische Element des Plasmas, künftighin Plasmon genannt, bleibt in den weiteren Generationen ebenso constant verschieden, wie die im Genom vereinigten Gene.

  Wettstein, F. von (1926). Über plasmatische Vererbung, sowie Plasma- und Genwirkung. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaft zu Göttingen. Math.-physikal. Kl. 250-281: 259.

  1932

  The abnormal development of chlorophyll (pale color) may be caused by a non-Mendelian nuclear or cytoplasmic factor or by a certain state of the genome or plasmon.

  Andersson-Kottö, I. & Park, M. (1932). Genetic investigations with ferns (plant exhibit). Proceedings of the International Congress of Genetics 6, vol. II, 281-283: 281.

  1932

  The abnormal development of chlorophyll (pale color) may be caused by a non-Mendelian nuclear or cytoplasmic factor or by a certain state of the genome or plasmon.

  Anonymus (1932). Proc. 6th Internat. Congr. Genetics, vol. II: 281.

  1982

  plasmon The totality of all extrachromosomal hereditary factors (plasmagenes); plasmotype.

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 194.