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source of nutrients. In
adelphophagy or embryophagy, the
fetus eats
sibling embryos,
while in
oophagy it
feeds on eggs.
Adelphophagy occurs in some marine...
- as
intrauterine cannibalism i.e. "embryophagy" or, more colorfully,
adelphophagy—literally "eating one's brother". The sand
tiger is
categorized as critically...
-
nutrients by
consuming other ova,
zygotes or
sibling embryos (oophagy or
adelphophagy). This intra-uterine
cannibalism occurs in some
sharks and in the black...
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develop in the female's oviducts, but find
their nutrients by
oophagy or
adelphophagy (intra-uterine
cannibalism of eggs or
sibling embryos in some sharks...
-
their nourishment from
oophagy and
adelphophagy,
oophagy being the
feeding on
unfertilised eggs,
while adelphophagy is the
feeding on
fertilised eggs,...
- "egg") and
classical Gr**** φᾱγεῖν (phāgein, "to eat"). In contrast,
adelphophagy is the
cannibalism of a multi-celled embryo.
Oophagy is
thought to occur...
- the
halfbeak Nomorhamphus ebrardtii. An
unusual mode of
vivipary is
adelphophagy or
intrauterine cannibalism, in
which the
largest embryos eat weaker...
-
nutriments from
other tissues,
whether skin or
glandular tissue,
oophagy or
adelphophagy (intra-uterine
cannibalism in some
sharks or in the
black salamander...
-
another is
termed adelphophagy. The
vocal sac of R.
darwinii does not seem to have the
proper structure to
facilitate adelphophagy and thus this proposal...
- Such
cannibalism may take the form of
oophagy (eating
sibling eggs) or
adelphophagy (literally,
eating one's brother, but in
context meaning the
eating of...
