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Arrenotokous

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(from Gr. ,ppjv, male, and ToKOS, from Tlktecv, to beget), biological terms proposed by Leuckart and Eduard von Siebold to denote those parthenogenetic females which produce male young, while "thelytokous" and "thelytoky" would denote their producing female young.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Arrenotokous'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/arrenotokous.html. 1910.
 
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