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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Reproduction by multiple fission of a spore or zygote, characteristic of many apicomplexan parasites. Sporogony results in the production of sporozoites.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sporogenesis , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The formation of
sporozoites fromspores orzygotes .
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Examples
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Vaughan JA (2007) Population dynamics of Plasmodium sporogony.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010
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Vaughan JA (2007) Population dynamics of Plasmodium sporogony.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010
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Gametogony and sporogony can also involve different gametes through a process known as gametogony.
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It can be summed up into three different processes, sporogony, merogony, and gametogony.
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