Matrotrophy is a form of maternal care during organism development, associated with live birth (viviparity), in which the embryo of an animal or flowering...

fertilization). Lecithotrophy and matrotrophy are not discrete traits. Most scientific studies quantify matrotrophy using a matrotrophy index (MI), which is the...

attached directly to the mother in these lizards which is called viviparous matrotrophy. Ovoviviparous animals develop within eggs that remain within the mother's...

montane water skink (Eulamprus tympanum). In general, viviparity and matrotrophy are believed to have evolved from an ancestral condition of oviparity...

lecithotrophic, which literally means "feeding on yolk"; as opposed to matrotrophy, where the maternal circulation provides for the nutritional needs. Distinguishing...

type of lecithotrophy (no maternal provisioning). Other species exhibit matrotrophy, in which the embryo exhausts its yolk supply early in gestation and...

eating) or by eating their unborn siblings (intra-uterine cannibalism). "Matrotrophy" (mother feeding) occurs when the embryo exhausts its yolk supply early...

placenta attached to the female – unambiguous examples of viviparous matrotrophy. Furthermore, an example recently described in Trachylepis ivensi is...

Buglife Jędrzejowska, Izabela; Garbiec, Arnold (2020). "Adaptations for matrotrophy in the female reproductive system in the pseudoscorpion <SCP> Chelifer...

female reproductive system during the ovarian cycle and adaptations for matrotrophy in chernetid pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae)". Scientific...