Successive virgin births of viable male progeny in the checkered gartersnake, Thamnophis marcianus

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 566-572

  Reynolds, R Graham ^a,d   Booth, Warren ^b   Schuett, Gordon W ^c   Fitzpatrick, Benjamin M ^a   Burghardt, Gordon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexual reproduction; Automixis; Facultative parthenogenesis; Microsatellite DNA genotyping; Reptilia; Serpentes; ZW sex determination

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; LIZARD; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SNAKE;

EID: 84867669940     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01954.x     Document Type: Article

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