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What does sublethal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Less than lethal.
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By confining small fish to living in suboptimal foraging habitat, predation may have important sublethal effects on populations.
Numerous recessive lethal and sublethal mutations have been reported, as well as a few mutations causing flightlessness.
In this part of the shell there is a reduction in septal spacing and there are no sublethal injuries.
From 1979 to 1985, he conducted his own extensive collaborative research program on the sublethal effects of oil on seabirds.
In the past, these parameters have been chosen with limited insight into the lethal and sublethal injury that may occur on a cellular level.
What is the nature of the damage inflicted by mechanical stress and how can this damage, including sublethal damage to cells, be detected?

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