The marbled crayfish as a paradigm for saltational speciation by autopolyploidy and parthenogenesis in animals
Günter Vogt, Cassandra Falckenhayn, Anne Schrimpf, Katharina Schmid, Katharina Hanna, Jörn Panteleit, Mark Helm, Ralf Schulz, 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.
bioRxiv · Aug 23, 2015Evolutionary Biology