Komodo dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Komodo dragon ( Varanus komodoensis ) is a species of lizard that inhabits the islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang in Indonesia. A member of the monitor lizard family (Varanidae)...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon
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Lizards are probably the best known example of parthenogenesis. Many species of whiptail lizards exist in populations consisting solely of females. These individuals reproduce through a courtship behavior that induces parthenogenesis.
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www.brown.edu/Courses/BI0032/partheno/nature.htm
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Scientists report two cases where female Komodo dragons have produced offspring - despite no male contact. ... The largest lizards in the world are capable of "virgin births". ... Tests revealed their eggs had developed without being fertilised by sperm - a process called parthenogenesis, the team wrote in the journal Nature.
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The discovery of parthenogenesis in reptiles came about through the casual observation ol the lack of males in several species of lizards. Nineteen all female species and subspecies from five genera and three families of lizards have been named or recognized.
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icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/361
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pected cases of lizard parthenogenesis; one in the Cha- maeleonfidae and the other, which probably involves triploidy as well, in the Gekkonidae. ...
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www.springerlink.com/index/RJ0U6223T6554X23.pdf
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“Sexual” behavior in parthenogenetic lizards (Cnemidophorus). David Crews* and; Kevin T. Fitzgerald†. *Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, ...
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www.pnas.org/content/77/1/499.abstract
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'Virgin births' for giant lizards ... Tests revealed their eggs had developed without being fertilised by sperm - a process called parthenogenesis, the team wrote in the journal Nature. One of the reptiles, Flora, a resident of Chester Zoo in the UK, is awaiting her clutch of eight eggs to ... Lizards and parthenogenesis...
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www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/dec2006/lizards_virgin.htm...
www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/dec2006/lizards_virgin.html
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"Parthenogenesis has never been documented in Komodo dragons before now, so this is absolutely a world first," said co-researcher ... In some whiptail lizards, males have become somewhat of an accessory, and all individuals are female. The type of asexual reproduction in whiptail lizards generates all-female offspring.
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www.livescience.com/animals/061220_virgin_births.html
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A good scientific reference to this field of study is: "Unisexual Lizards," by C.J. Cole, in _Scientific American_, Jan. 1984, pp. 94-100. See also "Parthenogenesis in Lizards" in Nov/Dec. '89 issue of _Reptiles & Amphibians Magazine_
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www.madsci.org/posts/archives/dec96/844956732.Zo.r.html
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