ovoviviparity in a sentence
Examples
- In ovoviviparity one or more egg hatches internally in the female, but they are not nourished after hatching and are immediately'larviposited'and continue their development outside the female.
- Traditionally this variety was classified into three modes, oviparity ( embryos in eggs ), viviparity ( young born live ), and ovoviviparity ( intermediate between the first two ).
- Two genera of labrisomid are noted for their ovoviviparity; " Xenomedea " and " Starksia " both retain eggs within their oviducts, where they develop in safety.
- The eggs are laid containing mature first instars, the female having incubated the eggs within her reproductive system until ready to hatch, a mode of reproduction known as ovolarviparity, more generally known as ovoviviparity.
- They agreed, however, that these eggs must have developed inside the mother which would later have given live birth ( a reproductive method sometimes called ovoviviparity ), but were likely expelled from the body when the mother died.
- Adenotrophic viviparity differs from ovoviviparity in that the eggs ( usually one at a time ) are retained within the female's body, hatch and are nourished through " milk glands " until the developed larvae are ready to pupate.
- Thorson's rule states that benthic marine invertebrates at low latitudes tend to produce large numbers of eggs developing to pelagic ( often planktotrophic [ plankton-feeding ] ) and widely dispersing larvae, whereas at high latitudes such organisms tend to produce fewer and larger lecithotrophic ( yolk-feeding ) eggs and larger offspring, often by viviparity or ovoviviparity, which are often brooded.