A pattern of reproduction where an organism produces offspring multiple times or in secondary reproductive cycles throughout its lifetime.
From Greek deuteros (second) + tokia (bearing offspring). The noun form describing repeated or secondary reproduction.
Salmon die after spawning once, but most fish exhibit deuterotoky—they breed multiple times across different seasons, which is a major evolutionary strategy for spreading out genetic risk.
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