Ametabolism

Ametabolism is a type of growth or life cycle in insects in which there is slight or no metamorphosis, only a gradual increase in size. It is present only in primitive wingless insects: the orders Archaeognatha and Zygentoma.[1][2]

See also

References

McGavin, George C. Essential Entomology: An Order-by-Order Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. pp. 20.
Triplehorn, Charles A; Johnson, Norman F (2005). Borror and DeLong's introduction to the study of insects (7th ed.). Australia: Thomson, Brooks/Cole. ISBN 9780030968358.

External links

http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Ametabolism Archived 2015-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ametabolic

Developmental biology
Ageing Compartment Embryogenesis Human Drosophila Fish polarity Embryology Metamerism Larva Pupa Metamorphosis Indirect development: holometabolism (Hypermetamorphosis), hemimetabolism Direct development: ametabolism Model organisms Ontogeny Puberty Regeneration Human Teratology
Evolutionary developmental biology

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