"Parthenogenesis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A unisexual reproduction without the fusion of a male and a female gamete (FERTILIZATION). In parthenogenesis, an individual is formed from an unfertilized OVUM that did not complete MEIOSIS. Parthenogenesis occurs in nature and can be artificially induced.
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D010312
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G08.686.784.830.500 G15.547
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Parthenogenesis" by people in Profiles.
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The gonadal transcriptome of the unisexual Amazon molly Poecilia formosa in comparison to its sexual ancestors, Poecilia mexicana and Poecilia latipinna. BMC Genomics. 2018 01 03; 19(1):12.
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Comparative analysis of the gonadal transcriptomes of the all-female species Poecilia formosa and its maternal ancestor Poecilia mexicana. BMC Res Notes. 2014 Apr 17; 7:249.
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Identifying glacial refugia in a geographic parthenogen using palaeoclimate modelling and phylogeography: the New Zealand stick insect Argosarchus horridus (White). Mol Ecol. 2009 Nov; 18(22):4650-63.
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Amazon mollies. Curr Biol. 2007 Jul 17; 17(14):R536-7.
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Molecular biogeography of clonal lineages in a high-arctic apomictic Daphnia complex. Mol Ecol. 1994 Oct; 3(5):497-506.