Automixis

The criterion for "sexuality" varies from all cases of restitutional meiosis,[4] to those where the nuclei fuse or to only those where gametes are mature at the time of fusion.

[3] Those cases of automixis that are classified as sexual reproduction are compared to self-fertilization in their mechanism and consequences.

When endomitosis occurs before meiosis[5][6] or when central fusion occurs (restitutional meiosis of anaphase I or the fusion of its products), the offspring get all[5][7] to more than half of the mother's genetic material and heterozygosity is mostly preserved[8] (if the mother has two alleles for a locus, it is likely that the offspring will get both).

[9] In the case of pre-meiotic doubling, recombination -if it happens- occurs between identical sister chromatids.

In the case of endomitosis after meiosis, the offspring is completely homozygous and has only half the mother's genetic material.