In sexual reproduction—the way most life-forms ... the asexually reproducing whiptail lizards that Baumann and his colleagues have been studying at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research ...

Unlike typical sexual reproduction, where male and female ... shortcut is rare among vertebrates, but some lizards, including certain whiptail and gecko species, have evolved to use it as their ...

If asexual reproduction survives at all ... One such asexual organism is the whiptail lizard in the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and South America, which consists only of females who reproduce by ...