{"id":11194,"date":"2017-08-25T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11194"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:02:14","slug":"word-of-the-day-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/25\/word-of-the-day-210\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Trophic egg<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <b>trophic egg<\/b>, in most species that produce them, usually is an unfertilised <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Egg (biology)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egg_%28biology%29\">egg<\/a> because its function is not <a title=\"Reproduction\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reproduction\">reproduction<\/a> but <a title=\"Nutrition\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nutrition\">nutrition<\/a>; in essence it serves as food for offspring hatched from viable eggs. The production of trophic eggs has been observed in a highly diverse range of species, including <a title=\"Fish\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fish\">fish<\/a>, <a title=\"Amphibian\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amphibian\">amphibians<\/a>, <a title=\"Spider\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spider\">spiders<\/a> and <a title=\"Insect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insect\">insects<\/a>. The function is not limited to any particular level of <a title=\"Parental investment\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parental_investment\">parental care<\/a>, but occurs in <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Subsociality\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subsociality\">sub-social<\/a> species of insects as well as in <a title=\"Leptodactylus fallax\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leptodactylus_fallax\">Leptodactylus fallax<\/a>, a species of frog known for its close parental care. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trophic_egg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in <i>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23531383-000-lazy-ants-lay-eggs-for-their-industrious-sisters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lazy ants actually lay eggs for their industrious sisters to eat<\/a>,\u201d <\/i><em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (12 August 2017):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s more, the eggs they carry might serve as food for other ants \u2013 particularly since other ant species are known to <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1046\/j.1365-3032.1998.234102.x\/abstract\">lay such unfertilised \u201ctrophic\u201d eggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInactive workers may be storing food for the colony,\u201d says Charbonneau (<i>Integrative and Comparative Biology<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/cbh4\">doi.org\/cbh4<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trophic egg: A trophic egg, in most species that produce them, usually is an unfertilised egg because its function is not reproduction but nutrition; in essence it serves as food for offspring hatched from viable eggs. The production of trophic eggs has been observed in a highly diverse range of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/25\/word-of-the-day-210\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11195,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions\/11195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}