Amazonian Fish Genome Challenges Long-Held Assumptions About Asexual Reproduction

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."