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Female Cockroaches Sync Up Their Virgin Births
Female Cockroaches Sync Up Their Virgin Births
Female cockroaches don't need a mate to lay eggs, but they do like company. New research finds that virgin female cockroaches housed together are quicker to produce offspring than virgin females living alone. It isn't particularly pleasant to imagine this happening under the fridge, but female American cockroaches ( Periplaneta americana) can produce eggs by parthenogenesis, a type of asexual reproduction.
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