{"id":743620,"date":"2022-12-15T16:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=743620"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:04:04","slug":"study-investigates-virgin-birth-in-aquarium-sharks-even-when-potential-mates-are-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=743620","title":{"rendered":"Study investigates &#039;virgin birth&#039; in aquarium sharks, even when potential mates are nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asexual reproduction is common for animals like starfish, deep-sea worms, and stick insects, but among vertebrates, it&#8217;s a rarity. A process called parthenogenesis allows some female animals to fertilize an egg with their own genetic material, producing offspring by &#8220;virgin birth.&#8221; Scientists have assumed that vertebrates that usually reproduce sexually turn to parthenogenesis as a &#8220;hail Mary pass,&#8221; a last-ditch effort at reproduction when there aren&#8217;t enough mates to go around.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-12-virgin-birth-aquarium-sharks-potential.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Study investigates &#8216;virgin birth&#8217; in aquarium sharks, even when potential mates are nearby<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asexual reproduction is common for animals like starfish, deep-sea worms, and stick insects, but among vertebrates, it&#8217;s a rarity. A process called parthenogenesis allows some female animals to fertilize an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}