ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Amphimictically

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Amphimictically is an adverb meaning By means of amphimixis.

Meaning

By means of amphimixis.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include amphigenously, automictically, amphibiously, amphibologically, amphibrachically, amphitelically.

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