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Heterochronic evolution whereby development of some or all somatic features is retarded relative to sexual maturation, resulting in sexually mature individuals with juvenile features. See paedomorphosis, progenesis.
Ãâó: evolution.unibe.ch/teaching/GlossarE.htm
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| neoteny |
paedomorphosis produced by retardation of somatic development.
Ãâó: www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/classes/bio406/glossary...
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| neoteny |
A prolongation of the larval stage in a sexually mature organism as in the Mexican tiger salamander or axolotyl, or in certain termite castes held in the larval stage as future replacements for the Queen (cf. pedogenesis).
Ãâó: images.antiagingconference.com/files/1103/aagatewa...
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| neoteny |
The persistence in the reproductively-mature adult of characters usually associated with the immature organism.
Ãâó: worms.zoology.wisc.edu/urchins/SUglossary.html
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