| Some species consist only of females that produce their daughters from unfertilized eggs, a type of reproduction called parthenogenesis. |
| The authors speculate that the fusion of polar bodies in the RKK might be a preadaptation to automictic parthenogenesis through central fusion. |
| In asexual reproduction, eggs develop without fertilization, a process called parthenogenesis. |
| Both species reproduce by cyclical parthenogenesis, in which phases of asexual reproduction are intermitted by sexual reproduction. |
| Facultative amphimixis is the equivalent of the mechanism described under meiotic parthenogenesis. |
| Reproductive modes include sexual reproduction and parthenogenesis, but much remains to be known about development. |
