males (facultative parthenogenesis), but recent research has revealed that this ability is widespread among squamates. Parthenogenesis can result from either...
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Reptile (redirect from Vision in reptiles)
Viviparity and ovoviviparity have evolved in squamates and many extinct clades of reptiles. Among squamates, many species, including all boas and most...
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turtles that have a single genital tubercle, as squamates have paired, separate genitalia. Squamate hemipenes also develop from a different cell origin...
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Parthenogenesis has been described in snakes and lizards (see Wikipedia Parthenogenesis in squamates), in amphibians (see Wikipedia Parthenogenesis in...
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Snake (category Articles with text in Germanic languages)
Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/). Cladistically squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales much like other members...
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estimates made by Wroe et al. in 2009, making it easily the largest terrestrial squamate ever. Among all the squamates, this size is only known to be...
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Komodo dragon (category Vertebrate parthenogenesis)
2008, the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, became the first zoo in the Americas to document parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons. The zoo has two...
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Teiidae (section Parthenogenesis)
reproduce by obligate parthenogenesis (obligate, because the lizards do not involve males and cannot reproduce sexually). Like all squamate obligate parthenogenetic...
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Lizard (redirect from Lizards in captivity)
closely related to squamates than rhynchocephalians are. The oldest undisputed lizards date to the Middle Jurassic, from remains found In Europe, Asia and...
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Sexual reproduction (redirect from Sexual reproduction in animals)
reproduction has been identified in squamates in six families of lizards and one snake. In some species of squamates, a population of females is able...
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the most common in Eunectes, E. murinus has been observed to undergo facultative parthenogenesis. In both cases, the females had lived in isolation from...
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Agkistrodon piscivorus (category Reptiles described in 1789)
consume fish, whereas adult females mainly consume other squamates, in particularly snakes. In this same research, it was concluded that the prey size...
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Green anaconda (category Reptiles described in 1758)
anaconda in West Midland Safari Park gave birth to three young through parthenogenesis. Green anacondas in the wild live for about 10 years. In captivity...
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with rapid tongue flicking in the female. Obligate parthenogenesis as a reproductive system has evolved multiple times in the family Gekkonidae. It has...
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Burton's legless lizard (category Reptiles described in 1835)
reproduce through parthenogenesis which does not require mating to be successful. Hatchlings are approximately 13 centimetres long. In Australia a license...
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Bird (redirect from Birds in folklore)
While rare, mostly abortive, parthenogenesis is not unknown in birds and eggs can be diploid, automictic and results in male offspring. Birds are solely...
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