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What does sublethal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Less than lethal.
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Bovie and Hughes found that a sublethal dose of UV rays at 280 nm inhibited cell division of Paramecia.
By confining small fish to living in suboptimal foraging habitat, predation may have important sublethal effects on populations.
In this part of the shell there is a reduction in septal spacing and there are no sublethal injuries.
Other work in this field has focused on cellular and enzymatic biomarkers as indicators of sublethal effects.
Numerous recessive lethal and sublethal mutations have been reported, as well as a few mutations causing flightlessness.
The impacts of, an attracticide approach can include both lethal and sublethal effects such as the interference with mate location by males.

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