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    Thelytoky (from the Greek θῆλυς thēlys "female" and τόκος tókos "birth") is a type of parthenogenesis and is the absence of mating and subsequent production...
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    fertilization. Thelytoky is a particular form of parthenogenesis in which female embryos are created (without fertilisation). The form of thelytoky in hymenopterans...
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    haploid, male eggs. Not all workers are capable of thelytoky – only those expressing the thelytoky phenotype, which is controlled by a recessive allele...
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    develop from the eggs of laying worker bees (with some exceptions, see thelytoky). A beehive cannot survive with only a laying worker bee. Even in a normal...
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    which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization. Thelytoky is a particular form of parthenogenesis in which the development of a...
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    case of reproduction is thelytoky: the reproduction of female workers or queens by laying worker bees by parthenogenesis. Thelytoky occurs in the Cape bee...
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  • known to cause negative side effects such as cytoplasmic incompatibility, thelytoky, and feminization in the reproductive habits of these various insect species...
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    "Fertile diploid males in the ant Cataglyphis cursor: a potential cost of thelytoky?". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 67 (12): 1983–1993. Bibcode:2013BEcoS...
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    parthenogenesis in which females develop from unfertilized eggs is known as thelytoky; when both males and females develop from unfertilized eggs, the term...
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    which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilisation. Thelytoky is a particular form of parthenogenesis in which the development of a...
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    workers of the Cape honeybee, A. m. capensis. These lay diploid eggs ("thelytoky"), escaping normal worker policing, leading to the colony's destruction;...
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    development of embryos occurs without fertilization by a male, a process called thelytoky. Lorryia formosa, originally found in Morocco, was first described by...
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    diploid (and therefore female) fertile offspring in a process called thelytoky, in which the second set of chromosomes comes not from sperm, but from...
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    no males have been observed. This form of parthenogenesis is known as thelytoky. Grubs grow up to 1 cm in length, have a slightly curved, legless body...
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    parthenogenesis since it was discovered to have low levels of naturally occurring thelytoky. Drosophila mercatorum male Bisby F.A.; Roskov Y.R.; Orrell T.M.; Nicolson...
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    mellifera subsp. capensis can reproduce asexually through a process called thelytoky. The freshwater crustacean Daphnia reproduces by parthenogenesis in the...
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    unfertilized eggs, which are clones of their mother. All such young are females (thelytoky), so 100% of the population at these times can produce more offspring...
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    which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization. Thelytoky is a particular form of parthenogenesis in which the development of a...
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    (reproducing without fertilisation), many species using arrhenotoky, a few using thelytoky. In Pezothrips kellyanus females hatch from larger eggs than males, possibly...
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    and the offspring are clonal to their mother, so they are all female (thelytoky). The embryos develop within the mothers' ovarioles, which then give birth...
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    yellow abdomen and opalescent wings. The species reproduces asexually via thelytoky induced by Wolbachia infection. Males are produced but are unable to inseminate...
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    The production of female offspring by parthenogenesis is referred to as thelytoky (e.g., aphids) while the production of males by parthenogenesis is referred...
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    which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilisation. Thelytoky is a particular form of parthenogenesis in which the development of a...
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    which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilisation. Thelytoky is a particular form of parthenogenesis in which the development of a...
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    population tolerance of environmental hazards. Parthenogenesis (also called thelytoky) is under the control of symbiotic bacteria of the genus Wolbachia, which...
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    Brevipalpus species are made up mostly of female individuals that reproduce via thelytoky, producing offspring without fertilization. Male individuals occur but...
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  • including self-fertilization in plants and automictic parthenogenesis (thelytoky) in hymenoptera, tends to lead to the harmful expression of deleterious...
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    a male. In some closely related species, the females instead undergo thelytoky, producing eggs without fertilization. Trichadenotecnum is well separated...
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  • eggs. On the San Jose scale however, though some females reproduce by thelytoky, other strains are arrhenotokous, with males being produced from unfertilised...
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    Authorities suspect that in these populations, this species reproduces by thelytoky, that is, parthenogenisis in which unfertilized females produce female...
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