arrhenotokous
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[edit]From arrhenotoky + -ous.
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[edit]arrhenotokous (not comparable)
- (zoology) Relating to arrhenotoky; producing males from unfertilized eggs.
- Certain wasps and bees are arrhenotokous.
- 2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics[1], volume 9, :
- In scale insects no examples of cyclic parthenogenesis are known and parthenogenesis can be thelytokous, deuterotokous or arrhenotokous.
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