Siebold's New Researches in Parthenogenesis*

A new hypothesis to explain geographic parthenogenesis

In many plants and animal species, asexuals are more common in marginal habitats such as high latitudes or altitudes than their closely related sexual counterparts. Here we propose a new hypothesis to explain this pattern called “geographic parthenogenesis”. In marginal habitats, populations may often exist as metapopulations with high degrees of subdivision and local extinction and recolonizat...

Parthenogenesis: Birth of a New Lineage or Reproductive Accident?

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?

autopolyploidy and parthenogenesis in animals

6 1 Division of Epigenetics, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 7 Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 8 2 Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Forststrasse 7, 76829 9 Landau, Germany 10 3 Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 11 Staudingerweg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany 12 * present address: ...

Recent Researches in Metallurgical

Phenotypic evolution and parthenogenesis

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