Parthenogenesis in reptiles
Keywords:
Meiosis, parthenogenesis, reptiles, Squamata
Abstract
The greater part of eukaryotes are gonochoristic and reproduce sexually, nevertheless, in some groups have arisen lineages constituted by only one sex that reproduce clonally. Among reptiles of the order Squamata there are about 40 species of lizards that reproduce by parthenogenesis that is a mechanism of clonal reproduction through which, females produce offspring genetically identical to them. Obligate parthenogenesis is a process widely recognized in reptiles, but recently has been documented facultative parthenogenesis in females of different species of lizards and snakes, that have been kept in captivity.
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Zweifel, R. G. (1965). Variation in and distribution of the unisexual lizard, Cnemidophorus tesselatus. American Museum Novitates, 2235:1-49.
Avise, J. C. (2008). Clonality. The genetics, ecology, and evolution of sexual abstinence in vertebrate animals. Oxford University Press, New York, U. S. A.
Avise, J. C., Quatro, J. M., & Vrijenhoek, R C. (1992). Molecular clones within organismal clones: Mitochondrial DNA phylogenies and the evolutionary histories of unisexual vertebrates. Evolutionary Biology, 26:225-246.
Booth, W., Smith, C. F., Eskridge, P. H., Hoss, S. K., Mendelson, J. R., & Schuett, J. W. (2012). Facultative parthenogenesis discovered in wild vertebrates. Biology Letters, 53:671-688.
Cole, C. J. (1979). Chromosome inheritance in parthenogenetic lizards and evolution of allopolyploidy in reptiles. The Journal of Heredity, 70:95-102.
Cuellar, O. (1971). Reproduction and the mechanism of meiotic restitution in the parthenogenetic lizard Cnemidophorus uniparens. The Journal of Morphology, 133: 139-166.
Cuellar, O. (1987). The evolution of parthenogenesis: A historical perspective. En P. B. Moens (ed.), Meiosis. Academic Press, New York , pp. 43-103
Cuellar, O. (1994). Biogeography of parthenogenetic animals. Biogeographica, 70:1-13.
Dawley, R. M. (1989). Evolution and ecology of unisexual vertebrates. En R. M. Dawley y J. P. Bogart (eds.), An introduction to the unisexual vertebrates. New York State Museum Bulletin 466, New York, pp. 1-18.
Fritts, T. H. (1969). The systematics of the parthenogenetic lizards of the Cnemidophorus cozumela complex. Copeia, 1969:519-535.
Fu, J., Murphy, R. W., & Darevsky, I. S. (1999). Limited genetic variation in Lacerta mixta and its parthenogenetic daughter species: Evidence from cytochrome b and ATPase 6 gene DNA sequences. Genetica, 105:227–231.
Hernández Gallegos, O., Manríquez Morán, N. L., Méndez de la Cruz, F. R., Villagrán Santa Cruz, M. & Cuellar, O. (1998). Histocompatibility in parthenogenetic lizards of the Cnemidophorus cozumela complex from the Yucatan Peninsula of México. Biogeographica, 74:117-124.
Lowe C. H., Wright, J. W., Cole, C. J., & Bezy, R. L. (1970). Natural hybridization between the teiid lizards Cnemidophorus sonorae (parthenogenetic) and Cnemidophorus tigris (bisexual). Systematic Zoology, 19:114-127.
Lynch, M., & Gabriel, W. (1983). Phenotypic evolution and parthenogenesis. The American Naturalist, 122:745-764.
MacCulloch, R. D., Murphy, R. W., Kupriyanova, L. A., Darevsky, I. S., & Danielyan, F. D. (1995). Clonal variation in the parthenogenetic rock lizard Lacerta armeniaca. Genome, 38:1057–1060.
Manríquez Morán, N. L. (2002). Origen y diversidad clonal en las especies de lagartijas partenogenéticas del complejo Cnemidophorus cozumela (Reptilia: Teiidae). Tesis de Doctorado, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. México.
Manríquez Morán, N. L. (2007). Diversidad clonal en los lacertilios unisexuales del género Aspidoscelis. Boletín de la Sociedad Herpetológica Mexicana, 15:1-12.
Manríquez Morán N. L., & Méndez de la Cruz, F. R. (2008). Genetic homogeneity between two populations of the parthenogenetic lizard Aspidoscelis cozumela. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 79:421-426.
Maslin, T. P. (1968). Taxonomic problems in parthenogenetic vertebrates. Systematic Zoology, 17:219-231.
Parker, E. D., & Selander, R. K. (1984). Low clonal diversity in the parthenogenetic lizard Cnemidophorus neomexicanus (Sauria: Teiidae). Herpetologica, 40:245-252.
Parker, E. D., Walker, J. M., & Paulissen, M. A. (1989). Clonal diversity in Cnemidophorus: ecological and morphological consequences. En R. M. Dawley y J. P. Bogart (eds.), Evolution and ecology of unisexual vertebrates. New York State Museum Bulletin 466, New York, pp. 72–86.
Simon, J. C., Delmotte, F., Rispe, C., & Crease, T. (2003). Phylogenetic relationships between parthenogens and their sexual relatives: the possible routes to parthenogenesis in animals. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 79:151-163.
Sinclair, E. A., Pramuk, J. B., Bezy, R. L., Crandall, K. A., & Sites, J. W. (2010). DNA evidence for non hybrid origins of parthenogenesis in natural populations of vertebrates. Evolution, 64:1346-1357.
Vrijenhoek, R. C., Dawley, R. M., Cole, C. J., & Bogart, J. P. (1989). A list of known unisexual vertebrates. En R. M. Dawley y J. P. Bogart (eds.), Evolution and ecology of unisexual vertebrates. New York State Museum Bulletin 466, New York, , pp. 19–23.
Watt. P. C., Buley, K. R., Sanderson, S., Boardman, W., Ciofi , C., & Gibson, R. (2006). Parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons. Nature, 444:1021-1022.
Zweifel, R. G. (1965). Variation in and distribution of the unisexual lizard, Cnemidophorus tesselatus. American Museum Novitates, 2235:1-49.
Published
2014-07-05
How to Cite
Manríquez Morán, N. L. (2014). Parthenogenesis in reptiles. Pädi Boletín Científico De Ciencias Básicas E Ingenierías Del ICBI, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.29057/icbi.v2i3.530
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