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Unisexual salamanders (genus Ambystoma) present a new reproductive mode for eukaryotes.
Genome - 1 Feb 2007
Bogart James P, Bi Ke, Fu Jinzong, Noble Daniel W A, Niedzwiecki John
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To persist, unisexual and asexual eukaryotes must have reproductive modes that circumvent normal bisexual reproduction. Parthenogenesis, gynogenesis, and hybridogenesis are the modes that have generally been ascribed to various unisexuals. Unisexual Ambystoma are abundant around the Great Lakes region of North America, and have variously been described as having all 3 reproductive modes. Diploid and polyploid...
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