Biology Forum Zoology Discussion Forced bird’s parthenogenesis

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    • #17662

      If we remove(or neutralize) the ovary of the female, it will become a fertile male.
      If we kept the eggs from the same female, we can get only offspring of its genome.

      Thus, by heterogamiy, known in botany, we can mutate birds.

    • #114996
      JackBean
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      Where did you get it will become fertile male? Do you have any publications in support?

    • #115023
      quote JackBean:

      Where did you get it will become fertile male? Do you have any publications in support?
      quote :

      …When the dormant, right-side gonad is switched on, it develops into a male sex organ called an ovotestis. Scientists have found that an ovotestis will produce sperm and this sexually reversed hen will try to mate with other hens in the flock. It is however, unknown whether a hen that has undergone a spontaneous sex reversal and developed an ovotestis can sire offspring…

      http://www.urbanchickenpodcast.com/ucp-episode-018/

      I personally saw hen laying eggs, which then began to copulate with other hens.

    • #115029
      animartco
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      But what has any of this to do with parthenogenesis?

    • #115051
      quote animartco:

      But what has any of this to do with parthenogenesis?

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