- trophogeny
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n. [Gr. trophe, food; genes, producing](ARTHROPODA: Insecta)In social insects, caste difference determined by nutritional mechanism.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.