Excited to share a new study co-written with Ed Ricemeyer (LMU Munich), supervised by Manfred Schartl (U. of Würzburg) & Wes Warren (U. of Missouri).
We investigated how the Amazon molly has survived for 100,000 years (more generations) despite clonal reproduction.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species - Nature
Analysis of the asexually reproducing Amazon molly Poecilia formosa and its sexually reproducing progenitors Poecilia mexicana and Poecilia latipinna reveals that it maintains a divergent mutational l...
