For the first time, scientists have managed to induce virgin birth in an animal that usually reproduces sexually: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
  • dbx12@programming.dev
    6·
    1 year ago

    Great. Just make sure these flies don’t get out into the wild. Last time we managed somethibg similar, we got several movies out of it.

  • galilette@mander.xyz
    5·
    1 year ago

    The offspring of a virgin birth are not exact clones of their mother but are genetically very similar, and are always female.

    What’s the source of the difference?

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m no biologist, but asexual reproduction is the first and oldest form. I’ll wager there’s a mechanism to introduce a small number of random mutations in the code.