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Parents Without Partners: Drosophila as a Model for Understanding the Mechanisms and Evolution of Parthenogenesis.
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- Dissecting the sterility phenotype in gene edited Drosophila suzukii pgSIT males.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Reproductive biology: A genetic recipe for parthenogenesis.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Parthenogenesis in dipterans: a genetic perspective.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Review
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- Infection effects of the new microsporidian species Tubulinosema suzukii on its host Drosophila suzukii.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The geography of sex: sexual conflict, environmental gradients and local loss of sex in facultatively parthenogenetic animals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- The fitness effects of delayed switching to sex in a facultatively asexual insect.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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- Sex Bias and Maternal Contribution to Gene Expression Divergence in Drosophila Blastoderm Embryos.PLoS genetics · 2015Article
- An X-linked sex ratio distorter in Drosophila simulans that kills or incapacitates both noncarrier sperm and sons.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2014Article
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Abstract
Of 40 Drosophila species screened to date, a majority have shown some ability to at least initiate parthenogenetic development. In one case, Drosophila mangebeirai, natural populations are entirely female, making it the only obligate parthenogenetic species of Drosophila Only a few of the species that exhibit the ability to undergo early embryonic development of unfertilized eggs successfully respond to selection for parthenogenetic production of adult flies. Laboratory strains of parthenogenetic Drosophila mercatorum have been created by artificial selection on multiple occasions, but the proportion of eggs undergoing development to adulthood has never exceeded 8%. Selection produces gains in the number of unfertilized eggs undergoing early development, but the majority arrest at the embryonic or first larval instar stages. Four components to successful parthenogenesis include (1) a female's propensity to lay unfertilized eggs, (2) the ability of the eggs to restore diploidy, (3) the ability of the parthenogenetically produced diploid embryo to complete larval development and pupation, and (4) the existence of genetic variability within and among Drosophila species in the frequency of parthenogenesis suggests the existence of multiple steps in its evolution and offers a way to explore the genetics of this unusual reproductive strategy.
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