arrhenotokous

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Etymology

arrhenotoky +‎ -ous

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arrhenotokous (not comparable)

  1. (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, volume 9, →DOI:
      In scale insects no examples of cyclic parthenogenesis are known and parthenogenesis can be thelytokous, deuterotokous or arrhenotokous.

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