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Komodo parthenogenesis
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danceswithsavs
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
for some reason it took a while for this to sink in-
the article said that the parthenogenetic offspring must all be male.

anything else i know produces females.

can anyone explain sex heredity of monitors?
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danceswithsavs
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
from the nature article - the answer to my own question
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In dragons, the female carries two different sex chromosomes (ZW), while males are homozygous ZZ. As WW is not a viable combination, all surviving offspring created by doubling up half of the female's genes must be males.


http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061218/full/061218-7.html
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