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Protocol for screening facultative parthenogenesis in Drosophila
STAR Protocols, 2023 Summary: Most species of sexually reproducing Drosophila are capable of some degree of facultative parthenogenesis, which involves the initiation of development in an unfertilized egg.
Alexis L Sperling, David M Glover
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Molecular evidence for the first records of facultative parthenogenesis in elapid snakes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction by which embryos develop from unfertilized eggs. Parthenogenesis occurs in reptiles; however, it is not yet known to occur in the widespread elapid snakes (Elapidae), which include well-known taxa such as
Vicki A Thomson +2 more
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The Persistence of Facultative Parthenogenesis in Drosophila albomicans
PLoS ONE, 2014 Parthenogenesis has evolved independently in more than 10 Drosophila species. Most cases are tychoparthenogenesis, which is occasional or accidental parthenogenesis in normally bisexual species with a low hatching rate of eggs produced by virgin females;
Ching-Ho Chang +2 more
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Facultative parthenogenesis validated by DNA analyses in the green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 In reptiles, the mode of reproduction is typically sexual. However, facultative parthenogenesis occurs in some Squamata, such as Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) and Burmese python (Python bivittatus).
Hiroki Shibata, Eiji Nitasaka
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Post-meiotic mechanism of facultative parthenogenesis in gonochoristic whiptail lizard species
ELife, 2023 Facultative parthenogenesis (FP) has historically been regarded as rare in vertebrates, but in recent years incidences have been reported in a growing list of fish, reptile, and bird species.
Robert Schnittker, Anthony Barley
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Facultative Parthenogenesis in California Condors [PDF]
Journal of Heredity, 2021 AbstractParthenogenesis is a relatively rare event in birds, documented in unfertilized eggs from columbid, galliform, and passerine females with no access to males. In the critically endangered California condor, parentage analysis conducted utilizing polymorphic microsatellite loci has identified two instances of parthenogenetic development from the ...
Jeanette Papp +2 more
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A genetic basis for facultative parthenogenesis in Drosophila
Current Biology, 2023 Facultative parthenogenesis enables sexually reproducing organisms to switch between sexual and asexual parthenogenetic reproduction. To gain insights into this phenomenon, we sequenced the genomes of sexually reproducing and parthenogenetic strains of Drosophila mercatorum and identified differences in the gene expression in their eggs. We then tested
Alexis L Sperling
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Facultative parthenogenesis discovered in wild vertebrates [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2012 Facultative parthenogenesis (FP)—asexual reproduction by bisexual species—has been documented in a variety of multi-cellular organisms but only recently in snakes, varanid lizards, birds and sharks. Unlike the approximately 80 taxa of unisexual reptiles, amphibians and fishes that exist in nature, FP has yet to be documented in the wild ...
Joseph Mendelson +2 more
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Evidence of facultative parthenogenesis in three Neotropical pitviper species of the Bothrops atrox group [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 We examined four suspected cases of facultative parthenogenesis in three species of a neotropical lineage of pitvipers of the Bothrops atrox group. Reproduction without mating was observed in captive females of B. atrox, B. moojeni and B. leucurus housed
Sergio D. Cubides-Cubillos +7 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2015 Facultative parthenogenesis is important for mayflies with short alate stages because females are able to reproduce without mating. We studied facultative parthenogenesis in Ephoron eophilum, a mayfly with an extremely short alate stage.
Kazuki Sekine, Yeon Jae Bae, Koji Tojo
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