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vectors of diseases. Insect pollinators are essential to the reproduction of many flowering plants and so to their ecosystems. Many insects are ecologically...

Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete (haploid reproductive cells, such as a sperm or egg...

Plant reproduction is the production of new offspring in plants, which can be accomplished by sexual or asexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction produces...

with external fertilization. Spiders are often confused with insects, but they are not insects; instead, they are arachnids. Spiders have separate male and...

Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes. The offspring that arise...

is repair of damages in germ line DNA. Insect reproduction Telomere (insect morphology), a part of the insect reproductive system Reproductive system...

can start earlier than this. A special, rare case of reproduction is thelytoky: the reproduction of female workers or queens by laying worker bees by...

Insectes Sociaux. 42 (1): 71–87. doi:10.1007/BF01245700. ISSN 0020-1812. S2CID 45830578. Jurgen Heinze (1994). "Colony structure and reproduction in...

Myrmicinae Metapone Laying worker bee Mermithergate Parthenogenetic reproduction in insects Worker policing In the original Naturwissenschaften paper where...

of as the insect equivalent of a mammal's penis, though the comparison is fairly loose given the greater complexity of insect reproduction. The term is...

advantageous strategy for insect reproduction under favorable conditions (particularly when hosts are easy to find, when the insects have a good chance of...

exerted into finding or attracting a mate can directly be invested in reproduction. Thelytoky can occur naturally, or it can be induced by scientists in...

ISBN 9780191580079. "Chapter 34: Longest Adult Life - The University of Florida Book of Insect Records - Department of Entomology & Nematology - UF/IFAS". entnemdept.ufl...

this scale is inappropriate in discussing patterns of insect reproduction because many insects breed more than once within one annual period, but generation...

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dynamics and apparent benefit of the combined forms of reproduction in honey bees and other social insects, known as the haplodiploid sex-determination system...

Insect physiology includes the physiology and biochemistry of insect organ systems. Although diverse, insects are quite similar in overall design, internally...

(2008), p. 899 Franz Engelmann, G. A. Kerkut, The Physiology of Insect Reproduction (2015), p. 29 Kumar R, Meena M, Swapnil P (2019). "Anisogamy". In...

australis, commonly known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect or tree lobster, is a species of stick insect that lives on the Lord Howe Island Group. It is the...

A metafemale (or superfemale) is a low viability Drosophila fruit fly with a female phenotype in which the ratio of X chromosomes to sets of autosomes...