Daniel Kulik

The paper investigates the origin of asexuality in the Amazon molly, showing that ancestral introgression between parental species contributed to its unique genomic makeup.

The paper presents chromosome-level genome assemblies for three hybridizing Cobitis species to study hybrid sterility and asexuality, revealing structural variation and sex chromosome divergence.

The paper shows asexual hybrids mediate genomic introgression from an extinct species into their sexual parent, challenging the view of asexual lineages as evolutionary dead ends.