Parthenogenesis: birth of a new lineage or reproductive accident?

Casper J van der Kooi; Tanja Schwander

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.055

Parthenogenesis: birth of a new lineage or reproductive accident?

Curr Biol. 2015 Aug 3;25(15):R659-61. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.055.

Authors

Casper J van der Kooi¹, Tanja Schwander²

Affiliations

¹ University of Lausanne, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Le Biophore, CH - 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: Casper.vanderKooi@unil.ch.
² University of Lausanne, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Le Biophore, CH - 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: Tanja.Schwander@unil.ch.

PMID: 26241141
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.055

Abstract

Parthenogenesis - the ability to produce offspring from unfertilized eggs - is widespread among invertebrates and now increasingly found in normally sexual vertebrates. Are these cases reproductive errors or could they be a first step in the emergence of new parthenogenetic lineages?

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MeSH terms

Animals
Endangered Species*
Female
Male
Parthenogenesis*
Skates, Fish / physiology*