BioConcepts

asexual reproductionungeschlechtliche Fortpflanzung (ger.)

• Reproduction in which new individuals are produced from a single parent without the formation of gametes. (A Dictionary of Biology, 2004)
  category reproduction

  1839

  [Non-sexual reproduction. – Of the nonsexual mode of reproduction three principal kinds may be distinguished, viz. first, by division ; second, by attached buds; and third, by separated gemmae

  Thomson, A. (1839). Generation. In: Todd, R.B. (ed.). The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, vol. 2, 424-480: 432.]

  1840

  ungeschlechtliche Fortpflanzung bei Thieren durch Keimkörper, Sporen

  Müller, J. (1840). Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen, vol. 2: 611.

  1852

  there are two kinds of reproductive bodies in Lacinularia: 1. Bodies which resemble true ova in their origin and subsequent development, and which possess only a single membrane; 2. Bodies half as large again as the foregoing, which resemble the ephippium of Daphnia, like it, have altogether three investments, and which do not resemble true ova, either in their origin or subsequent development, which, therefore, probably do not require fecundation, and are thence to be considered as a mode of asexual reproduction.

  Huxley, T.H. (1852). Lacinularia socialis, a contribution to the anatomy and physiology of the Rotifera. Zoologist. A Monthly Journal of Natural History 10, 3405-3406: 3406. 

  1982

  asexual reproduction Reproduction without the formation of gametes and in the absence of any sexual process; monogenesis; monogony. 

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 22.