apyrene

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adjective

Of sperm in species that exhibit sperm heteromorphism, infertile.

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Meanings

adjectiveapyrene (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyOf sperm in species that exhibit sperm heteromorphism, infertile.

    Counter to this latter hypothesis, Cook and Gage (1995) have shown that, unlike eupyrene numbers, apyrene sperm numbers do not vary with sperm competition risk (see fig 7.7).

    2001, Leigh W. Simmons, Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in the Insects
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