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Facultative parthenogenesis in California condors

Ryder, Oliver A, Thomas, Steven, Martin Judson, Jessica, Romanov, Michael N, Dandekar, Sugandha, Papp, Jeanette C., Sidak-Loftis, Lindsay C., Walker, Kelli, Stalis, Ilse H., Mace, Michael, and others. (2021) Facultative parthenogenesis in California condors. Journal of Heredity, 112 (7). pp. 569-574. ISSN 0022-1503. E-ISSN 1465-7333. (doi:10.1093/jhered/esab052) (KAR id:91218)

Abstract

Parthenogenesis is a relatively rare event in birds, documented in unfertilized eggs from columbid, galliform, and passerine females with no access to males. In the critically endangered California condor, parentage analysis conducted utilizing polymorphic microsatellite loci has identified two instances of parthenogenetic development from the eggs of two females in the captive breeding program, each continuously housed with a reproductively capable male with whom they had produced offspring. Paternal genetic contribution to the two chicks was excluded. Both parthenotes possessed the expected male ZZ sex chromosomes and were homozygous for all evaluated markers inherited from their dams. These findings represent the first molecular marker-based identification of facultative parthenogenesis in an avian species, notably of females in regular contact with fertile males, and add to the phylogenetic breadth of vertebrate taxa documented to have reproduced via asexual reproduction.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1093/jhered/esab052
Additional information: Ryder OA, Thomas S, Judson JM, Romanov MN, Dandekar S, Papp JC, Sidak-Loftis LC, Walker K, Stalis IH, Mace M, Steiner CC, Chemnick LG. Corrigendum to: Facultative Parthenogenesis in California Condors. J Hered. 2021 Dec 29:esab074. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esab074. Epub ahead of print. Erratum for: J Hered. 2021 Dec 17;112(7):569-574. PMID: 34964450.
Uncontrolled keywords: California condor, conservation genetics, parthenogenesis
Subjects: Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH75 Conservation (Biology)
Q Science > QL Zoology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences
Depositing User: Mike Romanov
Date Deposited: 30 Oct 2021 15:43 UTC
Last Modified: 08 Jan 2024 19:32 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/91218 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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