The article is worth reading if your are interested in learing more:
Moritz, C. 1991. Coping without sex in the outback. Australian Natural History 23:643-649. (note this journal is now called Nature Australia).
Also very good but more technical is:
Moritz, C. 1993. The origin and evolution of parthenogenesis in the Heteronotia binoei complex: synthesis. Genetica 90:269-280.
By the way, there is one other terrestrial gekkonine genus in Australia, Nactus, which appears to be ecologically similar to Heteronotia and also includes parthenogenetic lineages (N. arnouxii). Other pathenogenetic geckos are Hemidactylus garnoti and Lepidodactylus lubugris. We also have a recently discovered parthenogenetic skink in Australia, Menetia greyii.
Michael
>Do the sexual and parthenogenetic populations exist in the same area?
>Will the parthenogenetic females breed (successfully or otherwise)
>with males from the sexual populations?
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