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SPOROGENESIS: The mode of asexual reproduction, common in parasites, which involves the production of multiple spores or swarmers (dinospores, gymnospores, infective cells). There are two types of sporogenesis: palisporogenesis, in which feeding and sporogenesis occur simultaneously; and palintomy, in which sporogenesis occurs following, and not simultaneously to, feeding. Refer to Text-Figure 7.
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