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Arrenotokous, Arrenotoky

ARRENOTOKOUS, ARRENOTOKY (from Gr., male, and from , 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.

Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)

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