BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Captive shark had ‘virgin birth’
The evidence comes from a shark at Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska which gave birth to a pup in 2001 despite having had no contact with a male.
Parthenogenesis, as this type of reproduction is known, occurs when an egg cell is triggered to develop as an embryo without the addition of any genetic material from a male sperm cell.
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Parthenogenesis, big black nemesis, everybody’s happy when the dead come home.
