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parthenogenesis in mice?

carl3 Aug 29, 2007 01:12 AM

I have been breeding mice successfully over the past year & a half. Anyway, I had a colony of extra females....0.5 exactly. One of the females had 2 babies that were twins and identically like each other as well as the mother. Is this common? I am 110% positive that these females were never with a male.

Sincerely,
Jason

Replies (2)

Lasergrl Oct 21, 2007 04:53 PM

if this is truly the case, you should contact a university. I think I just heard on a documentary that this has never been seen in mammals. If you are really sure there was no male around and its real it may be very important finding. A research universiy can easily test and find out if its true

littleindiangirl Dec 11, 2007 01:21 PM

Sounds like you got a cock in the hen house!

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