Assertion: cleavage | /r/HasProperty | discoidal
Facets:
value: in fish
type: OTHER
value: in birds
type: LOCATION
value: in telolecithal eggs
type: LOCATION
value: in reptiles
type: OTHER
value: in egg-laying mammals
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In most fishes, birds, reptiles, and egg-laying mammals (monotremes), cleavage is discoidal—i.e., restricted to a disk of cytoplasm at the animal pole of the egg, most of the yolky egg material remaining uncleaved.
text: In centrolecithal eggs (many insect eggs) cleavage is meroblastic and superficial, while in telolecithal eggs (birds and fish) cleavage is discoidal