Species Distribution Models and Niche Partitioning among Unisexual Darevskia dahli and Its Parental Bisexual (D. portschinskii, D. mixta) Rock Lizards in the …

V Petrosyan, F Osipov, V Bobrov, N Dergunova… - Mathematics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Among vertebrates, true parthenogenesis is known only in reptiles. Parthenogenetic lizards
of the genus Darevskia emerged as a result of the hybridization of bisexual parental species …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of geographical distribution of the parthenogenetic rock lizard Darevskia armeniaca and its parental species (D. mixta, D. valentini) based on …

VG Petrosyan, FA Osipov, VV Bobrov, NN Dergunova… - Salamandra, 2019 - academia.edu
Studies of geographical distribution of parthenogenetic Darevskia armeniaca and its
parental species D. mixta and D. valentini can extend our knowledge in terms of their …

Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review

M Arakelyan, V Spangenberg, V Petrosyan… - Current …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Despite numerous works devoted to hybrid origin of parthenogenesis in reptiles, the causes
of hybridization between different species, resulting in the origin of parthenogenetic forms …

Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards: A rare outcome of common hybridization, not a common outcome of rare hybridization

S Freitas, AM Westram, T Schwander, M Arakelyan… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Hybridization is a common evolutionary process with multiple possible outcomes. In
vertebrates, interspecific hybridization has repeatedly generated parthenogenetic hybrid …

Reticulate Evolution of the Rock Lizards: Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics and Spermatogenesis in Diploid and Triploid Males of the Genus Darevskia

V Spangenberg, M Arakelyan, E Galoyan… - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
Knowing whether triploid hybrids resulting from natural hybridization of parthenogenetic and
bisexual species are fertile is crucial for understanding the mechanisms of reticulate …

Parthenogenesis is self-destructive for scaled reptiles

MO Moreira, C Fonseca, D Rojas - Biology Letters, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Parthenogenesis is rare in nature. With 39 described true parthenogens, scaled reptiles
(Squamata) are the only vertebrates that evolved this reproductive strategy …

[HTML][HTML] New records and geographic distribution of the sympatric zones of unisexual and bisexual rock lizards of the genus Darevskia in Armenia and adjacent …

VG Petrosyan, FA Osipov, VV Bobrov… - Biodiversity Data …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Caucasian rock lizards of the genus Darevskia are unique taxa, including both
bisexual and parthenogenetic species. The parthenogenetic species have originated as a …

The role of hybridisation in the origin and evolutionary persistence of vertebrate parthenogens: a case study of Darevskia lizards

SN Freitas, DJ Harris, N Sillero, M Arakelyan, RK Butlin… - Heredity, 2019 - nature.com
Obligate parthenogenesis is found in only 0.1% of the vertebrate species, is thought to be
relatively short lived and is typically of hybrid origin. However, neither the evolutionary …

Genotypic similarities among the parthenogenetic Darevskia rock lizards with different hybrid origins

D Tarkhnishvili, A Yanchukov, MK Şahin… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2020 - Springer
Background The majority of parthenogenetic vertebrates derive from hybridization between
sexually reproducing species, but the exact number of hybridization events ancestral to …

Multiple interspecific hybridization and microsatellite mutations provide clonal diversity in the parthenogenetic rock lizard Darevskia armeniaca

AE Girnyk, AA Vergun, SK Semyenova, AS Guliaev… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background The parthenogenetic Caucasian rock lizard Darevskia armeniaca, like
most other parthenogenetic vertebrate species, originated through interspecific hybridization …