Virgin Birth: A genetic basis for facultative parthenogenesis
A. L. Braun, D. K. Fabian, E. Garrison, D. M. Glover
The paper identifies three genes that enable facultative parthenogenesis in Drosophila mercatorum and shows their mis-regulation can induce similar reproduction in D. melanogaster.
bioRxiv · Mar 13, 2022Evolutionary Biology