• term resulted in widespread misuse of the term ovoviviparity in the biological literature. Ovoviviparity has been used to describe delayed forms of egg-laying...
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    maternal circulation, until the mother gives birth to live juveniles. Ovoviviparity is a special form of oviparity where the eggs are retained inside the...
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    form of viviparity is called ovoviviparity, in which the mother carries embryos inside eggs. Most vipers exhibit ovoviviparity. The more developed form of...
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    Fish reproductive organs include testes and ovaries. In most species, gonads are paired organs of similar size, which can be partially or totally fused...
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    The egg cell or ovum (pl.: ova) is the female reproductive cell, or gamete, in most anisogamous organisms (organisms that reproduce sexually with a larger...
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    reproduction in fish, providing different amounts of parental care. In ovoviviparity, there is internal fertilization and the young are born live but there...
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    Shark (section Ovoviviparity)
    to bear their young, varying by species, oviparity, viviparity and ovoviviparity. Most sharks are ovoviviparous, meaning that the eggs hatch in the oviduct...
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    ISBN 978-0-521-57890-5. Meier, Rudolf; Kotrba, Marion; Ferrar, Paul (August 1999). "Ovoviviparity and viviparity in the Diptera". Biological Reviews. 74 (3): 199–258...
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    of the labrisomid diet. Two genera of labrisomid are noted for their ovoviviparity; Xenomedea and Starksia both retain eggs within their oviducts, where...
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    eggs until they are developed enough to break out as hatchlings; and ovoviviparity, where the embryos are developed in eggs that remain carried inside...
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    (egg-laying), though some species exhibit live birth in a process called ovoviviparity. A variety of differences in egg-laying and the number of eggs laid...
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    which has been used as an explanation for the absence of viviparity or ovoviviparity in archosaurs. However, both pterosaurs and baurusuchids have soft-shelled...
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    modes, oviparity (embryos in eggs), viviparity (young born live), and ovoviviparity (intermediate between the first two). However, each of those so-called...
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    oviparous teleosts, most (79%) do not provide parental care. Viviparity, ovoviviparity, or some form of parental care for eggs, whether by the male, the female...
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    Embryo Ichthyoplankton Oogamy Oogenesis Ootheca Ovary Oviduct Oviparity Ovoviviparity Ovulation Spawn Tooth Trophic Zygote Components Yolk White Shell and...
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  • large eggs. This can lead to the evidence in which the evolution of ovoviviparity in D. sechellia is a result to avoid competition and possible exploitation...
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    only after her offspring have emerged within her (this is known as ovoviviparity). As in some other wood-inhabiting roaches, the parents and offspring...
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    parent, this condition is analogous to, though not identical with, ovoviviparity.[citation needed] David Alderton (15 May 2012). Livebearers: Understanding...
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  • subtropical climates but also in forests with evergreen trees. It exhibits ovoviviparity, causing it to have a lower reproductive rate than other species in...
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    shark populations. Greenland sharks are born alive (a process known as ovoviviparity) after an estimated gestation period of 8–18 years. Estimates of litter...
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    Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.10. ISSN 1175-5334. "Ovoviviparity - Cockroach Species". 2 March 2023. "Blaberidae | insect family | Britannica"...
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    as in externally spawned eggs. This situation, also referred to as ovoviviparity, is characteristic of marine rock fishes and the Lake Baikal sculpins...
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    crustaceans. The female retains the eggs in her body until they hatch (ovoviviparity), during which time the embryos feed solely on the egg yolk. Despite...
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    own, with varying amounts of help from the parent(s) of the species. Ovoviviparity, as in the garter snake, most vipers, and the Madagascar hissing cockroach...
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    until a few months before the shark hatches. Some catsharks exhibit ovoviviparity, aplacental viviparous, by holding onto the embryos until they are completely...
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    internal development does not occur in birds, given their need to fly. Ovoviviparity is a mode of reproduction in which embryos develop inside eggs that...
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    or they will die. A few fish, notably the rays and most sharks use ovoviviparity in which the eggs are fertilized and develop internally. However, the...
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    them within the ovary and gives birth to live young, an example of ovoviviparity. The egg has a tough spiny coat, and usually hatches to release a free-swimming...
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    on small invertebrates and zooplankton. Reproduction occurs through ovoviviparity, in which the males carry eggs in a brood pouch before giving live birth...
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  • substrates, seagrass beds, and estuaries. Reproduction occurs through ovoviviparity in which the males brood eggs before giving live birth. Vaidyanathan...
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