That is pretty cool. There is also a female Burmese at a zoo which had laid multiple clutches and babies hatched but she was never introduced to a male. It's the same scenario. All babies were female and exact clones of the mom.
04-17-2011, 05:05 PM
Sammy412
It's called parthogenesis, and it can happen in a range of species.
04-18-2011, 05:18 PM
jsmorphs2
Re: "Boa Constrictors Can Have Babies Without Mating, New Evidence Shows"
How crazy would it be if a female snow boa gave birth to a whole litter of female snows :O.
04-18-2011, 05:46 PM
Foschi Exotic Serpents
That would be amazing :D
04-18-2011, 06:11 PM
Krynn
Interesting article.. Im amazed that it produced WW females though, i thought that was lethal.
Even in humans, YY would be lethal without the x chromosome. I am curious to see if her children are fertile.
04-18-2011, 06:32 PM
mainbutter
Really neat. Like Krynn, I'm super weirded out by not only producing WW females, but producing ONLY WW females.. I'm just as interested to know if they are fertile.
I would have thought that snake parthenogenesis would produce ZW females, ZZ males, and WW slugs. Parthenogenesis itself sounds evolutionarily beneficial, but much more so if males were born.