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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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78Maggenti and Gardnerapogamete n. [Gr. apo, away; gamete, spouse] A gameteformed by apomixis.apogamy see apomixisapolar a. [Gr. an, without; polos, pivot pole] Lacking a pole;without radiating processes.apolegamic a. [Gr. apolegein, to choose; gamos, marriage]Pertaining to sexual selection.apolysis n. [Gr. apo, away; lysis, loosen] 1. (ARTHRO) The firstprocess <strong>of</strong> molting, characterized by the detachment <strong>of</strong> theold cuticle from the underlying hypodermal (epidermal)cells. see ecdysis. 2. (PLATY: Cestoda) The detachment <strong>of</strong>a gravid proglottid in tapeworms. apolytic a. see anapolysis.apomict n. [Gr. apo, away; miktos, mixed] Any organism producedby apomixis.apomictic (ameiotic) parthenogenesis No reduction divisionoccurs, so that the <strong>of</strong>fspring have the same genetic constitutionas the mother and all are female.apomixis n. [Gr. apo, away; mixis, mixing] Botanical termsometimes used in invertebrates. see parthenogenesis.apomorph n. [Gr. apo, away; morphe, form] A derived character.apomorphy n. [Gr. apo, away; morphe, form] A term pertainingto derived characters, normally used in cladistic taxonomy.apomorphic a. see plesiomorphy.apophysary see apophysisapophysis n.; pl. -ses [Gr. apo, away; phyein, to grow] 1. Aninternal or external tubercular or elongate process <strong>of</strong> thebody wall; a prominence, swelling or expansion. see apodeme,apodome. 2. (ARTHRO: Insecta) see pleuralapophysis, sternal apophyses. 3. (MOLL) a. In Bivalvia,a large, styloid projection, one in each valve, extendingfrom beneath the umbos to which the foot muscles are attached.b. In Polyplacophora, see sutural laminae.apophystegal plates (ARTHRO: Insecta) In Orthroptera, plateorblade-like sclerites covering the gonapophyses.apopore n. [Gr. apo, away; poros, passage] (PORIF) An aper-

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