Introduction: Plant dispersal directly depends on reproduction success, and hence, on sexual systems. In bryophytes, wherein fertilization involves a continuous film of water between male and female ...

This happens when certain maternal or paternal genes are shut down during development, and it is a fundamental barrier to unisexual reproduction in mammals. To address these limitations ...

One of the key challenges in artificial unisexual reproduction has been imprinting genes, which regulate developmental processes. Disruptions in these genes can cause embryos to fail in development.

The experts targeted specific imprinting genes to overcome key barriers that previously prevented unisexual reproduction in mammals. More specifically, by modifying a set of genes involved in ...

Their results describe how targeting a particular set of genes involved in reproduction allowed the researchers to overcome previously insurmountable challenges in unisexual reproduction in mammals.

“The unique characteristics of imprinting genes have led scientists to believe that they are a fundamental barrier to unisexual reproduction in mammals,” says co-corresponding author Qi ...

"The unique characteristics of imprinting genes have led scientists to believe that they are a fundamental barrier to unisexual reproduction in mammals," says co-corresponding author Qi Zhou ...

This is called unisexual reproduction. While mammals are known to reproduce only through sexual reproduction, certain other vertebrates including some reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish have ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have successfully created a bi-paternal mouse—a mouse with two biological fathers. This marks the first time a ...

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"The unique characteristics of imprinting genes have led scientists to believe that they are a fundamental barrier to unisexual reproduction in mammals," said study coauthor Qi Zhou of the Chinese ...

Until now, many similar attempts have resulted in unhealthy offspring. "The unique characteristics of imprinting genes have led scientists to believe that they are a fundamental barrier to unisexual ...