In article <29hhsp$6rc at happy.cc.utexas.edu> ramki at happy.cc.utexas.edu (Lakshmikantan Ramakrishnan) writes:
John Reed writes
My last question is simply: in
what types of organisms does parthanogenesis occur? I know it occurs in
insects, what about other arthropods, plants (I believe it does), other
animals, fungi?
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Lizards, for one. Lot's of all female (=parthenoform)
whiptail lizards *Cnemidophorus* sp. in Texas.
fish (black molly, I think)
birds (there's a parthenogenic turkey farm in New Jersey)
mechanical disturbances of unfertilized amphibian eggs can induce cell
division but I don't remember if can develop fully.
ramki
L.Ramakrishnan
Zoology Dept. UT Austin
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