Lizard Nativity

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Originally Posted by pitbulllady

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This phenomenon, called pathenogenisis, is not unknown among lizards, though. Several species of smaller lizards, including the Desert Whiptail of the American Southwest, reproduce this way. There are no males even found in those species; all of them are female! It's basically self-cloning; the eggs are exact replicas of the parent, and all offspring are female as a result.

pitbulllady

Good grief is that true? When did that happen to Desert Whiptail? Clones of clones of clones in plants become less resistant to environmentsal stresses which is why we're losing the Cavendish Banana. I suppose that must play out over much longer time-scales in animals or are they not clones in the same sense?