thelytoky
thelytoky — 名詞
1. a form of parthenogenesis — meaning reproduction that takes place without the eg
產雌孤雌生殖
僅產雌性的孤雌生殖
a form of parthenogenesis — meaning reproduction that takes place without the egg being fertilized by a male cell — in which every unfertilized egg grows into a female individual, so that the population contains no males at all.
Ramón studied thelytoky in a colony of Amazon ants where no male ants had ever been seen.
Ramón 研究了一個亞馬遜蟻群中的產雌孤雌生殖現象，該蟻群中從未見過雄蟻。
collocation: study thelytoky in [species]
In some stick insects, thelytoky allows a single female to start a new population after reaching a distant island.
在某些竹節蟲中，產雌孤雌生殖使單一雌蟲抵達偏遠島嶼後就能建立新族群。
collocation: thelytoky allows [species] to [verb]
Nora compared thelytoky with arrhenotoky, which produces only male offspring instead of females.
Nora 比較了產雌孤雌生殖與產雄孤雌生殖，後者產生的後代全部為雄性而非雌性。
The laboratory colony of geckos has shown thelytoky for more than twelve years, producing only female young.
實驗室飼養的守宮群落已展現產雌孤雌生殖長達十二年以上，只產出雌性幼體。
- thelytokous parthenogenesis
the fuller, more explicit term; used interchangeably in scientific writing
- arrhenotoky
parthenogenesis that produces only male offspring
用法筆記
Used only in biology and zoology, most often when describing the reproductive strategies of insects, mites, crustaceans, and some reptiles. The adjective form is thelytokous (e.g., 'thelytokous parthenogenesis').