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What does sublethal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Less than lethal.
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The impacts of, an attracticide approach can include both lethal and sublethal effects such as the interference with mate location by males.
Bovie and Hughes found that a sublethal dose of UV rays at 280 nm inhibited cell division of Paramecia.
There was no sublethal damage to the one-day-old plants, which were all killed when attacked.
Unlike the situation with gastropods, sublethal damage is relatively easy to interpret in ophiuroids and crinoids.
In many systems, sublethal oxidative stress was found to be involved either directly or indirectly in PCD processes.
From 1979 to 1985, he conducted his own extensive collaborative research program on the sublethal effects of oil on seabirds.

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