Matrotrophy is a form of maternal care during organism development, associated with live birth (viviparity), in which the embryo of an animal or flowering...

fertilization). Lecithotrophy and matrotrophy are not discrete traits. Most scientific studies quantify matrotrophy using a matrotrophy index (MI), which is the...

attached directly to the mother in these lizards which is called viviparous matrotrophy. Ovoviviparous animals develop within eggs that remain within the mother's...

montane water skink (Eulamprus tympanum). In general, viviparity and matrotrophy are believed to have evolved from an ancestral condition of oviparity...

lecithotrophic, which literally means "feeding on yolk"; as opposed to matrotrophy, where the maternal circulation provides for the nutritional needs. Distinguishing...

type of lecithotrophy (no maternal provisioning). Other species exhibit matrotrophy, in which the embryo exhausts its yolk supply early in gestation and...

eating) or by eating their unborn siblings (intra-uterine cannibalism). "Matrotrophy" (mother feeding) occurs when the embryo exhausts its yolk supply early...

placenta attached to the female – unambiguous examples of viviparous matrotrophy. Furthermore, an example recently described in Trachylepis ivensi is...

reproductive modes is better thought of as a spectrum or continuum between matrotrophy (embryonic nutrients come directly from the mother) and lecithotrophy...

(Arachnida) Pseudoscorpions - Bug Directory - Buglife Adaptations for matrotrophy in the female reproductive system in the pseudoscorpion Chelifer cancroides...

female reproductive system during the ovarian cycle and adaptations for matrotrophy in chernetid pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae)". Scientific...

juvenile. These allow the absorption of nutrients within the ovary (matrotrophy), and are shed by juveniles shortly after birth. Female goodeids do not...

Gordon, D. P.; Schwaha, T.; Genikhovich, G.; Ereskovsky, A. V. (2015). "Matrotrophy and placentation in invertebrates: A new paradigm". Biological Reviews...

known as a circulus. The Solomon Islands skink reproduces by viviparous matrotrophy: the female provides a placenta for its young, which are born after a...

female reproductive system during the ovarian cycle and adaptations for matrotrophy in chernetid pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae)". Scientific...

Histotrophy is a form of matrotrophy exhibited by some live-bearing sharks and rays, in which the developing embryo receives additional nutrition from...

The developing embryo relies on egg's yolk, extraembryonic nutrition (matrotrophy) or both. In ctenostomes the mother provides a brood chamber for the...

Preserved giant skinks have belly-button slits indicative of viviparous matrotrophy, yet a captive female was documented as laying a clutch of seven eggs...

female deep-water shark birdbeak dogfish, Deania calcea: Lecithotrophy or matrotrophy?" Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom...

fertilization and is distinct from many other fish for displaying viviparity and matrotrophy. This means that the female keeps the embryo inside her body and gives...

Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 94:1–10. Frick, J. E. 1998. Evidence of matrotrophy in the viviparous holothuroid echinoderm Synaptula hydriformis. Invertebrate...