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RE: Sperm Retention?

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Posted by: JP at Wed Jun 27 14:48:28 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JP ]  
   

Well, you can leave her to incubate the eggs, but you 'll need to provide optimum temps and humidity. I would think her temps would need to be fairly constant in the high 80s and have humidity around 80% or so. Its probably alot easier to incubate them artifically.

As far as whether or not the offspring would be clones, that's very often how it works. I know in some species where parthenogenesis has been know to occur, the offspring were genetically identical to mom. I don't suppose they would have to be. IF the mechanism by which this happens involves two eggs fusing, then I would think the offspring would not be clones. A genetic test easily would confirm if all of the genetic material came from mom or if there was a contribution from a male.

As far as the science goes, goal #1 is to hatch the eggs. After that, the testing can be done at any time. Are you near any decent universities?

   

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