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English
Etymology
From Latin subitaneus. Doublet of sudden.
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subitaneous (comparative more subitaneous, superlative most subitaneous)
- (obsolete) Sudden; suddenly done or made.
- (of the young of a species) Immediately developing (as contrasted with e.g. diapausing).
1989 October 31, Roger Neville Hughes, Functional Biology of Clonal Animals, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 136:... subitaneous (immediately developing) and diapausing (dormant) eggs, brood retention, environmental sex determination and suppression of meiosis in subitaneous eggs. The production of subitaneous and diapausing eggs is […]
2019 August 2, S. J. Hawkins, A. L. Allcock, A. E. Bates, L. B. Firth, I. P. Smith, S. E. Swearer, P. A. Todd, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An annual review. Volume 57, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 17:... subitaneous or resting. This is enough to make the Calanoida eggs (about 104–106 m-2 of bottom area) more abundant than those of Rotifera (about 104 m-2) and Cladocera (about 103–105 m-2) in sediment assemblages (Hairston 1996). Among […]
2019 September 25, Victor R. Alekseev, Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, Dormancy in Aquatic Organisms. Theory, Human Use and Modeling, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 167:... subitaneous offspring (Arbačiauskas 1998). The larger early fecundity at high food concentrations resulted in higher fitness of post-diapause females also in D. magna; however, a trend for a higher fitness in subitaneous offspring was […]
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