Adelphogamy

{{Short description|Sexual partnership between siblings}}

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Adelphogamy is a form of sexual partnership between sibling eukaryotes, especially in some species of fungi, flowering plants or ants, or in humans."adelphogamy, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2022, [https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/2256 www.oed.com/view/Entry/2256]. Accessed 15 March 2022. In flowering plants, adelphogamy refers to sibling pollination: pollen and stigma belong to two individuals which derives from same mother plant.{{Cite book |last1=Rieger |first1=R. |last2=Michaelis |first2=A. |last3=Green |first3=M. M. |date=1991 |title=Glossary of Genetics |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-75333-6 |language=en-gb |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-75333-6|isbn=978-3-540-52054-2 }}

In sociology, the term adelphogamy or adelphic polyandry may also refer to fraternal polyandry, or to an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister.{{Cite web |title=adelphogamy |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095350938 |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en }}{{Cite journal |last=Rudmin |first=Floyd Webster |date=1992 |title=Cross-Cultural Correlates of the Ownership of Private Property: A Look from Another Data Base |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25605633 |journal=Anthropologica |language=en |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=71–88 |doi=10.2307/25605633|jstor=25605633 |hdl=1974/2575 |hdl-access=free }}