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APARITY AMONG THE ORIBATIDAE (ACARINA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Arthur Paul Jacot
Arthur Paul Jacot
Affiliation:
Corrnell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
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Aparity is that development in reproduction wherein the adult mother retains the eggs instead of laying them. The result is that the young hatch in the mother's body and are forced to feed on her tissues until they have eaten their way out. Such a condition might be construed as parasitism on the adult mother. Since the phenomenon is brought on by the parent and is forced upon the young, it can hartdly be called parasitism, unless the old term obligate parasite is given a new meaning.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 65 , Issue 12 , December 1933 , pp. 263 - 264
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1933

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