Definitions

Diapause

• A period of suspended development. [Ingle, 1983]
• Extreme state of anaerobic quiescence (seen in encysted embryos of some large-bodied branchiopods and eggs or cysts of some copepods). [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]
• (Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) A significant period of quiescence during development. [Ferrari and Dahms, in press]

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