Amazonian Fish Genome Challenges Long-Held Assumptions About Asexual Reproduction

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The Amazon molly, an all-female fish species, is thriving despite dismal views of the genetic health of asexual vertebrae. The story features a comment from the School of Biological Sciences Pedram Samani's editorial in Nature. Samani writes, "The main finding of the paper is that the species is in remarkably good genomic health."

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School of Biological Sciences, Amazon Molly, Pedram Samani, College of Sciences
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  • Created By: mrosten3
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  • Created On: Feb 21, 2018 - 4:33pm
  • Last Updated: Feb 21, 2018 - 4:33pm