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Lecithotrophy - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Lecithotrophy is defined as a form of nutrition during gestation where embryos obtain nutrients from yolk reserves stored in the oocyte prior to ...
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Planktotrophy versus lecithotrophy - Invertebrate Embryology
Lecithotrophy, meaning “feeding on yolk”, refers to development with a non-feeding larva, which depends on the egg's yolk reserve supplied by the mother.
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Marine larval ecology - Wikipedia
Lecithotrophic larvae have greater dispersal potential than direct developers. Many fish species and some benthic invertebrates have lecithotrophic larvae ...
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lecithotrophic
lecithotrophic, a. (lɛsɪθəʊˈtrɒfɪk, lɛkɪθəʊ-) [f. Gr. λέκιθος yolk of egg + -trophic.] Of the larvæ of certain marine invertebrates, feeding on the yolk of the egg from which they have emerged.1950 G. Thorson in Biol. Rev. XXV. 10 The lecithotrophic pelagic larvae, mainly developing from fairly larg...
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LECITHOTROPHIC definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
Lecithotrophic adjective biology (of an embryo) obtaining nourishment solely from stored yolk. Examples of 'lecithotrophic' in a sentence.
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lecithotrophic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From lecithotrophy + -ic. Adjective. edit. lecithotrophic (not comparable). That feeds on egg yolks. Derived terms. edit · lecithotrophically.
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Phallocephale
This species exhibits lecithotrophic ovoviviparity; that is, mothers in this species retain yolky eggs in their uteri.
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lecithotrophic - Crustacea glossary
lecithotrophic — adj. [Gr. lekithos, egg yolk; trophe, food] Obtaining nourishment from a large quantity of stored yolk, as in various invertebrates …
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Fetal nutrition in lecithotrophic squamate reptiles - PubMed
1 Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA. stewarjr@etsu.edu.
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bridging the gap between planktotrophy and lecithotrophy - PubMed
Here we review studies of these intermediate larval forms, focusing on descriptions of larvae known as facultative feeders.
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Contrasting predation rates on planktotrophic and lecithotrophic ...
Lecithotrophic larvae generally have higher lipid contents than planktotrophic larvae that are neutrally or negatively buoyant (Emlet et al., 1987). Chemical ...
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Development of a lecithotrophic pilidium larva illustrates convergent ...
We describe the development of pilidium nielseni from fertilization to metamorphosis, and demonstrate that fundamental aspects of pilidial development are ...
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Maldanomorpha
The two main synapomorphies, morphological characters described to unite both families, are a lecithotrophic larval development and the presence of an
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-trophic
-trophic, suffix (ˈtrəʊfɪk, ˈtrɒfɪk) [See trophic a.] 1. Forming adjs.: (a) with the senses ‘characterized by nutrition (of a certain kind)’, ‘finding nourishment in’, as in autotrophic adj. s.v. auto-1, heterotrophic, lecithotrophic adjs., psychrotrophic adj. s.v. psychro-; also ‘controlled by’, as...
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Ophidiaster granifer
In either case, the larvae are lecithotrophic and feed off the yolks of their eggs.
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