Hip hip hooray for parthenogenisis?
Who needs males when you have parthenogenisis? With a little help from science, biologist Peter Baumann and collagues have created an all-female lizard species…
Researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard, mimicking a process that has happened naturally in the past but has never been directly observed.
“It’s recreating the events that lead to new species,” said cell biologist Peter Baumann of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, whose new species is described May 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “It relates to the question of how these unisexual species arise in the first place.”
