dispermy


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dispermy

[′dī‚spər·mē]
(physiology)
Entrance of two spermatozoa into an ovum.
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Dispermy is considered to be the most common cause of triploidy.
Thus, the mechanism causing triploidy was more likely to have been either dispermy or a non-disjunction event in meiosis 1 and very unlikely to have been due to an event in meiosis 2.
Diandric triploidy in a liveborn infant with 3-4 syndactyly and a neural tube defect
Allele patterns for CHMs were consistent with monospermy in 25 cases (81%) and dispermy in 6 cases (19%) (Figure 1).
Diagnostic utility of microsatellite genotyping for molar pregnancy testing

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