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Identifying and Engineering Genes for Parthenogenesis in Plants

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019
Parthenogenesis is the spontaneous development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg cell. It naturally occurs in a variety of plant and animal species.
Kitty Vijverberg, Peggy Ozias-Akins, M. Eric Schranz   +2 more
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Geographic parthenogenesis and plant-enemy interactions in the common dandelion

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2013
Background Many species with sexual and asexual variants show a pattern of geographic parthenogenesis where asexuals have broader and higher-latitude distribution than sexuals.
Verhoeven Koen JF, Biere Arjen
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Parthenogenesis in a captive Asian water dragon (Physignathus cocincinus) identified with novel microsatellites.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Reptiles show varying degrees of facultative parthenogenesis. Here we use genetic methods to determine that an isolated, captive female Asian water dragon produced at least nine offspring via parthenogenesis. We identified microsatellites for the species
Kyle L Miller, Susette Castañeda Rico, Carly R Muletz-Wolz, Michael G Campana, Nancy McInerney, Lauren Augustine, Celine Frere, Alan M Peters, Robert C Fleischer   +8 more
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Variability of Reproduction Pathways in the Central-European Populations of Hawthorns with Emphasis on Triploids

Plants, 2022
The role of apomeiosis, parthenogenesis, and pseudogamy in the asexual reproduction of some plant groups has not been fully elucidated in relation to species diversification.
Vladislav Kolarčik, Valéria Kocová, Vlastimil Mikoláš, Lenka Mártonfiová, Nikola Hajdučeková, Pavol Mártonfi   +5 more
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Evidence of parthenogenetic populations from the Paratanytarsus laccophilus species group (Diptera: Chironomidae) in the Alaskan Arctic

CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research, 2020
Parthenogenesis, reproduction without fertilization, is not common in the Chironomidae (Diptera), a family of insects with more than 6,000 described species.
Alec R Lackmann, Daniel C McEwen, Malcolm G Butler   +2 more
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“Jack‐of‐all‐trades” is parthenogenetic

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Sex is evolutionarily more costly than parthenogenesis, evolutionary ecologists therefore wonder why sex is much more frequent than parthenogenesis in the majority of animal lineages. Intriguingly, parthenogenetic individuals and species are as common as
Mark Maraun, Paul S. P. Bischof, Finn L. Klemp, Jule Pollack, Linnea Raab, Jan Schmerbach, Ina Schaefer, Stefan Scheu, Tancredi Caruso   +8 more
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Opportunities and Challenges in Doubled Haploids and Haploid Inducer-Mediated Genome-Editing Systems in Cucurbits

Agronomy, 2020
Doubled haploids have played a major role in cucurbit breeding for the past four decades. In situ parthenogenesis via irradiated pollen is the preferred technique to obtain haploid plantlets whose chromosomes are then doubled in Cucurbitaceae, such as ...
Isidre Hooghvorst, Salvador Nogués
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Parthenogenesis. [PDF]

Folklore, 1918
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First report of recurrent parthenogenesis as an adaptive reproductive strategy in the endangered common smooth-hound shark Mustelus mustelus

Scientific Reports
Parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, describes a mode of reproduction where an egg develops into an offspring without fertilization, and is observed across various vertebrate taxa, excluding mammals.
Giuseppe Esposito, Arianna Meletiadis, Simona Sciuto, Marino Prearo, Flavio Gagliardi, Ilaria Corrias, Angela Pira, Alessandro Dondo, Paolo Briguglio, Claudio Ghittino, Daniele Dedola, Elena Bozzetta, Pier Luigi Acutis, Paolo Pastorino, Silvia Colussi   +14 more
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A key role for sex chromosomes in the regulation of parthenogenesis in the brown alga Ectocarpus.

PLoS Genetics, 2019
Although evolutionary transitions from sexual to asexual reproduction are frequent in eukaryotes, the genetic bases of these shifts remain largely elusive.
Laure Mignerot, Komlan Avia, Remy Luthringer, Agnieszka P Lipinska, Akira F Peters, J Mark Cock, Susana M Coelho   +6 more
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