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What does amphimixis mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) The union of a male and female gamete
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Facultative amphimixis is the equivalent of the mechanism described under meiotic parthenogenesis.
Our findings indicate that in general haplodiploidy and automixis should be more successful than amphimixis or apomixis.
A great diversity of reproductive mechanisms occur among nematodes, including amphimixis, automictic hermaphroditisim, and parthenogenesis.
When I speak of sexual reproduction in this essay, I mean anisogamous amphimixis.
Amphimixis may result when insemination by males occurs.

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