Partenogeneettisiä liskoja löytyy mm. Teiidae, Lacertidae, Scincidae ja Gekkonidae-heimoista.
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Ryabinina, N. L., Grechko, V. V., Semenova, S. K., Darevsky, I. S. 1999. On the Hybridogenous Origin of the Parthenogenetc Species Lacerta dahli and Lacerta rostombekovi Revealed by RAPD Technique. Russian Journal of Herpetology: Volume 6. No. 1.
The hypothesis of hybridogenous origin of lacertid parthenogenetic species was verified by RAPD method with several arbitrary primers. The hypothesis appeared to be correct as both parthenogenetic lizard DNAs contain only the RAPD loci of putative parental bisexual species and practically no ones specific for parthenospecies. The most probable parentals are L. mixta and L. portschinskii for L. dahli, and some of the populations of L. raddei/nairensis complex and L. portschinskii, too, for L. rostombekovi.
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Murphy R. W., FU, J., Macculloch, R.D., Darevsky, I. S., Kupriyanovaa, L. A. 2000. Fine line between sex and unisexuality: the phylogenetic constraints on parthenogenesis in lacertid lizards. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: Volume 130, Issue 4, Sivut 527-549
A phylogeny of Caucasian rock lizards (genus Darevskia, formerly Lacerta) was reconstructed using mitochondrial DNA sequence and allozyme data. All 15 bisexual species grouped into three major clades: thecaucasica, saxicola and rudis clades. Unisexual Darevskia originate from inter-clade hybridization, never from within clades. Only two clades, the caucasica clade and the rudis clade, were involved in forming unisexuals; the saxicola clade was never involved. Furthermore, the hybridization is directional in that thecaucasica clade contributed only maternal parents and the rudis clade only paternal parents. The formation of unisexual species is best explained by sexually directional phylogenetic constraints. We hypothesize that the causative agents are likely to be genes linked with the sex chromosomes within the parental sexual species.
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Adams, M., Foster, R., Hutchinson, M. N., Hutchinson, R. G., Donnellan, S. C. 2003: THE AUSTRALIAN SCINCID LIZARD MENETIA GREYII: A NEW INSTANCE OF WIDESPREAD VERTEBRATE PARTHENOGENESIS. Evolution: Vol. 57, No. 11, pp. 2619–2627.
Molecular data derived from allozymes and mitochondrial nucleotide sequences, in combination with karyotypes, sex ratios, and inheritance data, have revealed the widespread Australian lizard Menetia greyii to be a complex of sexual and triploid unisexual taxa. Three sexual species, three presumed parthenogenetic lineages, and one animal of uncertain status were detected amongst 145 animals examined from south-central Australia, an area representing less than one-seventh of the total distribution of the complex. Parthenogenesis appears to have originated via interspecific hybridization, although presumed sexual ancestors could only be identified in two cases. The allozyme and mtDNA data reveal the presence of many distinct clones within the presumed parthenogenetic lineages. This new instance of vertebrate parthenogenesis is a first for the Scincidae and only the second definitive case of unisexuality in an indigenous Australian vertebrate.
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Parthenogenesis in Whiptail Lizards