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autotomy: a standalone construct

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Zoology

voluntary shedding of a body part, such as a lizard's tail or a crab's limb, usually to escape a predator.

In zoology, autotomy refers to voluntary shedding of a body part, such as a lizard's tail or a crab's limb, usually to escape a predator. This meaning comes from Fleming (2007) in Biological Reviews.[1]

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body2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs escape2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs tail2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Fleming, P. A., Muller, D., & Bateman, P. W. (2007). Leave it all behind: a taxonomic perspective of autotomy in invertebrates. Biological Reviews, 82(3), 481-510. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.2007.00020.x

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