Summary
The Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) is not named after the river, but rather for a mythical tribe of female warriors that used males from neighboring tribes to reproduce, and then killed the sons. While counting the number of diploid and triploid fish after the competition, she saw that one fish's nucleus had exactly double the DNA content of the diploids.
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Good Golly, Miss Molly
In 1932, two University of Michigan fish ecologists, Carl and Laura Hubbs, reported in Science that they had the first experimental proof of a clonally reproducing vertebrate. What they found in the lakes and streams of n...
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