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Entomology

the fraction of a female parasitoid's lifetime egg supply that is mature at emergence, used to place species along a pro-ovigenic to synovigenic continuum.

In entomology, ovigeny index refers to the fraction of a female parasitoid's lifetime egg supply that is mature at emergence, used to place species along a pro-ovigenic to synovigenic continuum. This meaning comes from Jervis (2001) in Journal of Animal Ecology.[1]

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  1. Jervis, M. A., Heimpel, G. E., Ferns, P. N., Harvey, J. A., & Kidd, N. A. C. (2001). Life‐history strategies in parasitoid wasps: a comparative analysis of ‘ovigeny’. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70(3), 442-458. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2656.2001.00507.x

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