For the first time, scientists have induced facultative parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction, in an animal that usually reproduces sexually. An estimated 76 percent of fruit flies can ...

In many instances, facultative parthenogenesis – the ability of organisms that normally reproduce sexually to also reproduce asexually – results in offspring with genome-wide homozygosity.

Scientists have just discovered that female American crocodiles can produce offspring without males—a phenomenon known as facultative parthenogenesis, or “virgin birth." Such asexual ...

Two particularly unusual methods—facultative parthenogenesis and multiple embryos per egg case (MEPE)—may provide key survival advantages, though scientists are still investigating their ...

This is the first time that reproduction without having had sex—known as parthenogenesis—has been seen in this species. "This study reports the first case of facultative parthenogenesis in the ...

Facultative parthenogens are animals that can switch between sexual reproduction and parthenogenesis. One example of facultative parthenogenesis, Fujita said, is seen among female sharks in ...

Virgin birth' is a natural process called facultative parthenogenesis, meaning a female is able to produce young without any involvement from a male. It's extremely rare in nature, although it is ...

Since 2020, both females have reproduced asexually, which indicates facultative parthenogenesis. However, this is the first documented case of facultative parthenogenesis — the ability to ...

People have their own thoughts." "This is a very weird story," Warren Booth, who studies facultative parthenogenesis, a type of asexual reproduction, and is an associate professor of entomology at ...

Levin co-authored the paper, called “Discovery of facultative parthenogenesis in a New World crocodile,” with Warren Booth, an urban entomology professor at Virginia Tech and others on a seven ...