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Somehow, This Fish Fathered a Near Clone of Itself - C C - May 29, 2017
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/science/somehow-this-fish-fathered-a-near-clone-of-itself.html
EXCERPT: [...] But there are many other bizarre ways reproduction can take place. For instance, scientists have discovered a fish carrying genes only from its father in the nucleus of its cells. Found in a type of fish called Squalius alburnoides, which normally inhabits rivers in Portugal or Spain, this is the first documented instance in vertebrates of a father producing a near clone of itself through sexual reproduction — a rare phenomenon called androgenesis — the researchers reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Wednesday....