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A 2022 study in the journal Development described the cellular mechanism that allows mourning geckos to reproduce without fertilisation
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The research identified a process called premeiotic endoreplication — where an egg cell duplicates its full chromosome set before undergoing meiosis — as essential to how mourning geckos and a small number of other parthenogenetic gecko lineages produce viable, unreduced eggs without a mate..
The research identified a process called premeiotic endoreplication — where an egg cell duplicates its full chromosome set before undergoing meiosis — as essential to how mourning geckos and a small number of other parthenogenetic gecko lineages produce viable, unreduced eggs without a mate.