subitaneous

comparative more subitaneous · superlative most subitaneous

1. obsoleteSudden; suddenly done or made.
2. Immediately developing (as contrasted with e.g. diapausing).

   ... subitaneous (immediately developing) and diapausing (dormant) eggs, brood retention, environmental sex determination and suppression of meiosis in subitaneous eggs. The production of subitaneous and diapausing eggs is[…]

   1989 October 31, Roger Neville Hughes, Functional Biology of Clonal Animals, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 136

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   ... subitaneous or resting. This is enough to make the Calanoida eggs (about 104–106 m-2 of bottom area) more abundant than those of Rotifera (about 104 m-2) and Cladocera (about 103–105 m-2) in sediment assemblages (Hairston 1996). Among[…]

   2019 August 2, S. J. Hawkins, A. L. Allcock, A. E. Bates, L. B. Firth, I. P. Smith, S. E. Swearer, P. A. Todd, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An annual review. Volume 57, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 17

   ... subitaneous offspring (Arbačiauskas 1998). The larger early fecundity at high food concentrations resulted in higher fitness of post-diapause females also in D. magna; however, a trend for a higher fitness in subitaneous offspring was[…]

   2019 September 25, Victor R. Alekseev, Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, Dormancy in Aquatic Organisms. Theory, Human Use and Modeling, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 167