正如发现巨蜥单性生殖的英国的动物园管理员所描述的,像等公共汽车一样,等了好长时间,然后一群小蜥蜴就一股脑地都出来了。
As the British zookeeper who discovered virgin births in Komodos put it, rather like buses, you wait for ages and then loads of them come along all at once.
人为造出此类动物的这一事实意味着我们现在可以跨越遗传学上哺乳动物不能进行单性生殖的障碍——至少实现了老鼠的单性生殖。
The fact that they were able to make such animals means that we can now get over the genetic barriers to a mammalian virgin birth - in mice at least.
迄今已知大约70种爬行动物有单性繁殖行为。
Parthenogenesis is so far known to occur in about 70 reptile species.
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