单词 | homogonic |
释义 | homogonicadj. Biology. Applied to a life cycle of certain nematodes in which the offspring of a parasitic generation themselves develop into parasites, without the intervention of a free-living generation; also applied to organisms reproducing by such a cycle. Opposed to heterogonic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > phase or type of life cycle retrograde1850 photophobe1897 heterogonic1926 homogonic1926 macrocyclic1926 scotophil1949 scotophilic1960 1926 J. H. Sandground in Amer. Jrnl. Hygiene VI. 338 In the genus Strongyloides [of nematodes] heterogony may be involved in the life-cycle, but in many instances there is only one multiplicative generation and this mode of development has been called direct or, if we may introduce a new term to express this, homogonic in contradistinction to heterogonic or indirect. 1939 Amer. Jrnl. Hygiene 30 d. 15 In those Strongyloides infections where both modes of larval development are commonly encountered, there is little constancy in the daily yields of heterogonic, i.e., indirect or free-living adult, in contrast to homogonic, or direct, progeny. 1951 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates III. xiii. 307 It is probable that any species of Rhabdias may employ either the homogonic or heterogonic type of life cycle. 1968 N. D. Levine Nematode Parasites ii. 75/1 Absence of food, too, led to homogonic development. Derivatives homoˈgonically adv. by means of a homogonic life cycle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adverb] > life cycle homogonically1938 1938 Amer. Jrnl. Hygiene 28 224 The production of these two types of progeny was related to the age of the single, homogonically derived parasite. 1968 N. D. Levine Nematode Parasites ii. 75/1 In a loam soil..40% of the larvae developed into females, 40% into males and 20% homogonically into infective larvae. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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