Absence of temperature-dependent sex determination in congeneric sexual and parthenogenetic Cnemidophorus lizards |
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Authors: | D Crews |
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Affiliation: | Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin 78712. |
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Abstract: | Eggs from congeneric gonochoristic and parthenogenetic whiptail lizards were incubated at various temperatures. There was no significant deviation from a sex ratio of one-half in the sexual species at any temperature, whereas no males were produced in the parthenogenetic species. Temperature-dependent sex determination appears to be completely absent in these lizards. |
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