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androgenesis

NOUN
  1. male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization

How To Use androgenesis In A Sentence

  • PNAS introduced me to a brand new one: androgenesis, in which a species reproduces using only the DNA from sperm. Ars Technica
  • Corley-Smith GE, Brandhorst BP (1999) Preservation of endangered species and populations: a role for genome banking, somatic cell cloning, and androgenesis? PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • He suspects that androgenesis - the technical name for father-only reproduction - is responsible. Wired Top Stories
  • In barley, a combination of starvation and osmotic stress is able to induce efficiently a microspore developmental switch from the gametophytic to the sporophytic pathway, a process called androgenesis.
  • (et qua te ducit via dirige gressum, said Venus) androgenesis*. Farmboyz / Perge Modo
  • Barley androgenesis is a suitable model system to study plant embryogenesis, as embryo development can easily be monitored in vitro.
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