- embryonic coprophagy
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excretion of yolk glycoproteins from the gastrointestinal tract of the embryo to the perivitelline space where they are swallowed by the embryo, e.g. in Neogobius melanostomus
Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.
embryonic coprophagy
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