Instead of the truly independent and strong women that they would be without such societal imprinting.
The barrier to parthenogenesis in mammals, it seems, is something known as genetic imprinting.
There appears, in particular, to be a problem with a phenomenon known as genetic imprinting.
Imprinting seems to be implicated in conflicts between the genetic interests of mother and father.
In very young eggs all the genetic imprinting has been erased a state much closer to a paternal genome.
The machines, developed jointly by video-game developers Atlus and Sega, take a customer's picture for imprinting on stickers.
She becomes mired in indecision when an African toddler is offered to them instead of an infant, raising worries over maternal imprinting.
The selective switching off of genes that have come from one or other parent is called imprinting and, though rare, is not unknown.
Imprinting is the process by which one of those copies is silenced so as not to overdose a cell with whatever that gene provides.
James J Anderson and Chloe Bracis of the University of Washington say the work supports recent modelling studies showing geomagnetic imprinting is feasible to return salmon to their home river.
Only 0.6% of the embryos created survived, and it is thought likely that defects in the imprinting process may cause the surviving adults to develop rare diseases later in life.
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