The meaning of PROTOGYNY is a state in hermaphroditic systems that is characterized by development of female organs or maturation of their products before ...

Protogyny occurs in organisms that are born female and at some point of their life span change sex to males. In general, the occurrence of protogyny is associated with the following three features: low mobility of females, low abundance of males, and intense competition among males for access to females.

1. The condition in which the female reproductive organs (carpels) of a flower mature before the male ones (stamens), thereby ensuring that self-fertilization ...

Protogyny is the most common form of sequential hermaphroditism in fish, occurring in 15 families, and is especially pervasive in social species with polygynous ...

Protogynous definition: of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sexual ...

9 янв. 2020 г. · Protandry, Protogyny. 1) The process in which the anther mature before the maturation of pistil to prevent self-fertility.

The flowers are protogynous, meaning that the female stigmas mature before the male anthers, and are pollinated by flies. From. Wikipedia. This example is from ...

25 окт. 2024 г. · Groupers are protogynous hermaphrodites; that is, they first function as females and later transform into males. They are prime food fishes and ...

28 дек. 2020 г. · Protogyny is a type of sexual system in plants where the female reproductive organs mature before the male reproductive organs. In protogynous ...

A condition in hermaphroditic or dioecious animals in which the female reproductive structures mature before the male structures. It is of rare occurrence.