androgeneticadj.
/ˌandrə(ʊ)dʒᵻˈnɛtɪk/, U.S. /ˌændroʊdʒəˈnɛdɪk/ Biology and Medicine.
Relating to, originating by, or of the nature of androgenesis (in either sense of the noun).
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sexual1794
gamic1858
gamogenetic1858
syngenetic1864
digenous1884
sexuparous1899
androgenetic1903
gynogenetic1925
1903 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 42 291 One sex only produced from unfertilized eggs. (a) Arrenotoky (Leuckart), Androgenetic (Breyer).
1918 C. Packard in Biol. Bull. 35 50 The inference is that these embryos have developed under the influence of the sperm nucleus and are therefore androgenetic.
1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) v. 465 The nuclei of the embryo are solely of paternal origin, i.e., descendants of the sperm-nucleus alone. This process is designated as ‘androgenetic’.
1977 Nature 18 Aug. 633 We have made a cytogenetic study of the origin of hydatidiform mole and found that it receives only paternal chromosomes and is therefore androgenetic in origin.
2014 Molecular Ecol. 23 5102 The clam genus Corbicula is an interesting model system to study the evolution of reproductive modes as it includes both sexual and asexual (androgenetic) lineages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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