Inheritance patterns of male asexuality in hybrid males of a water frog Pelophylax esculentus.

ABSTRACT: Gametogenesis produces gametes as a piece of genetic information transmitted to the offspring. While during sexual reproduction, progeny inherits a mix of genetic material from both parents, asexually reproducing organisms transfer a copy of maternal or paternal DNA to the progeny clonally. Parthenogenetic, gynogenetic and hybridogenetic animals have developed various mechanisms of gametogenesis, however, their inheritance is not fully understood. Here, we focused on the inheritance of asexual gametogenesis in hybrid Pelophylax esculentus (RL), emerging after crosses of P. lessonae (LL) and P. ridibundus (RR). To understand the mechanisms of gametogenesis in hybrids, we performed three-generation experiments of sexual P. ridibundus females and hybrids from all-male hybrid populations. Usin

SUBMITTER: Dolezalkova-Kastankova M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11742031 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature