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>In this case, each mother condor had previously bred with males, producing 34 chicks, and each was housed with a fertile male at the time they produced the egg
by GhettoComputers 5y ago
>In this case, each mother condor had previously bred with males, producing 34 chicks, and each was housed with a fertile male at the time they produced the eggs through parthenogenesis.
>The researchers said they believe it is the first case of asexual reproduction in any avian species where the female had access to a mate.
Do they store some sort of marker? Both were male, reminiscent of the insect family of hymenoptera which produces male drones with no fertilization?
- gus_massa 5y ago> The asexual reproduction was discovered some years ago during widespread testing of genetic material collected over decades from condors, both living and dead, in breeding programs and in the wild. They just made a standard DNA paternity test, and got a surprise.