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名詞

diergism (uncountable)

1. (biology) The existence, in a single species, of two distinct ways of a structure or organ functioning.
   • 2004, Malcolm J. Low, Marcelo Rubinstein, & Veronica Otero-Corchon, “Altered patterns of growth hormone secretion in somatostatin knockout mice”, in Somatostatin, →ISBN:

     Similarly‚ there is sexual diergism of GH secretion between men and women indicating phylogenetic conservation of neuroendocrine hormone rhythms.

   • 2006, Zoology in the Middle East - Volumes 37-39, page 44:

     Feeding diergism is not unprecedented in snakes (Zinner 1984, Tsairi & BOuskILa 2004) and, especially in view of the FMR in size, could conceivably occur and cause broader black rings in female Micrelaps muelleri.

   • 2007, Beatriz Carrilloa, Helena Pinosa, Antonio Guillamóna, GianCarlo Panzicab, & Paloma Colladoa, “Morphometrical and neurochemical changes in the anteroventral subdivision of the rat medial amygdala during estrous cycle”, in Brain research, volume 1150:

     In conclusion, the MeAV shows functional diergism, due to plastic changes in the female rat brain probably linked to the increase of estradiol during estrous.