Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
The marbled crayfish as a paradigm for saltational speciation by autopolyploidy and parthenogenesis in animals
Günter Vogt, Cassandra Falckenhayn, Anne Schrimpf…·Frank Lyko
This study shows that marbled crayfish, a parthenogenetic triploid, originated from P. fallax through autopolyploidy and is now an independent asexual species with distinct traits.
DOI 10.1242/bio.014241