Amphimictically
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 By means of amphimixis. not-comparable
"A great many species, often reported as thelytokous (see, for example, Nur 1990 for the review), in reality combine thelytokous reproduction with amphimixis, producing males amphimictically or parthenogenetically (diploid arrhenotoky and deuterotoky), and these males have, as usual for scale insects, paternal genome heterochromatinization."
Example
More examples"A great many species, often reported as thelytokous (see, for example, Nur 1990 for the review), in reality combine thelytokous reproduction with amphimixis, producing males amphimictically or parthenogenetically (diploid arrhenotoky and deuterotoky), and these males have, as usual for scale insects, paternal genome heterochromatinization."
Etymology
From amphimictic + -ally.
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