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Self-Perpetuating Female Salamanders from Mental_Floss

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Interesting article, but the title is misleading, since unisexual Ambystoma females need sperm from males of bisexual species to perpetuate.
These females are not really cloned. Only a part of their genome is actually cloned. Such species are qualified as kleptons.
 
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