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Androgenesis in the Onionfly Hylemya antiqua (Meigen) demonstrated with a Chromosomal Marker

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When offspring originate from non-inseminated females, gynogenesis (parthenogenesis) must have occurred. If insemination has taken place, however, both gynogenesis and androgenesis can occur. Should there be no fusion of the male and female pronucleus after penetration of the sperm into the egg1, one of the two gametes may develop into a haploid or sometimes diploid, individual with characteristics of the mother (gynogenesis) or the father (androgenesis) exclusively. Here I consider both spontaneous and induced androgenesis.

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VAN HEEMERT, C. Androgenesis in the Onionfly Hylemya antiqua (Meigen) demonstrated with a Chromosomal Marker. Nature New Biology 246, 21–22 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio246021a0

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