Amazon Molly Fish: How Asexual Reproduction Defies Extinction
The Amazon molly, a small freshwater fish found in the warm waters of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, presents a fascinating paradox to evolutionary biologists. This remarkable species, Poecilia formosa, is entirely female and reproduces through a process called gynogenesis – essentially cloning itself. For an estimated 100,000 years, these fish have thrived without the … Read more