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PARTHENOGENESIS occurs naturally in several orders of insects, and can conveniently be classified according to the sex of the offspring which develop from the unfertilized egg: (1) arrhenotoky—males only (fertilized eggs give rise to females); (2) thelytoky—females only; (3) amphitoky—both sexes.
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HAMILTON, A. Thelytokous Parthenogenesis for Four Generations in the Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forsk) (Acrididæ). Nature 172, 1153–1154 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1721153a0
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