title: Parthenogenesis: birth of a new lineage or reproductive accident?
abstract: Parthenogenesis - the ability to produce offspring from unfertilized eggs - is widespread among invertebrates and now increasingly found in normally sexual vertebrates. Are these cases reproductive errors or could they be a first step in the emergence of new parthenogenetic lineages?
authors.affiliation: University of Lausanne, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Le Biophore, CH - 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: Casper.vanderKooi@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Casper J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: van der Kooi
authors.affiliation: University of Lausanne, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Le Biophore, CH - 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: Tanja.Schwander@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schwander
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D056727:Endangered Species; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010312:Parthenogenesis; D012860:Skates, Fish / Q000502:physiology*