I am also going to guess that the offspring of parthenogenesis are all female.
I read that the offspring of parthenogenesis are all male. The theory being that a lone female can restart (or spread) the population parthenogenetically and then go back to sexual reproduction.
Thanks for the comment! You are correct! And I learned something new.
I was going on the assumption that XX=female and XY=male for all types of sexual creatures, but there's apparently a different scheme for these reptiles and many others: WZ=female, ZZ=male. I think that's way cool.
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Date: 2006-12-22 05:12 pm (UTC)I read that the offspring of parthenogenesis are all male. The theory being that a lone female can restart (or spread) the population parthenogenetically and then go back to sexual reproduction.
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Date: 2006-12-22 07:04 pm (UTC)I was going on the assumption that XX=female and XY=male for all types of sexual creatures, but there's apparently a different scheme for these reptiles and many others: WZ=female, ZZ=male. I think that's way cool.