xenoparity

English

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Etymology

From xeno- +‎ parity, from Latin pariō (“give birth to”).

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Noun

xenoparity (uncountable)

  1. (biology) The condition of being xenoparous.
    • 2025 September 3, Y. Juvé, C. Lutrat, A. Ha, et al., “One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants”, in Nature‎[1], →DOI:
      We suggest defining such females as xenoparous, meaning they need to produce individuals of another species as part of their life cycle. This shows the evolution of xenoparity (xeno-, meaning ‘foreign, strange, different’, and -parity, meaning ‘produce, bring forth, give birth’), which is the need to propagate another species’ genome by means of its own eggs.
      Transition towards xenoparity seems to result from sexual evolution along a parasitism–mutualism continuum.

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