Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing males only: applied by Leuckart and Von Siebold to those parthenogenetic female insects which produce male progeny: opposed to thelytokous. Also spelled
arrenotokous .
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We also observed direct evidence of the rare production of sexual gynes and arrhenotokous males in clonal populations.
Naturejobs - All Jobs J Foucaud 2010
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