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The marbled crayfish as a paradigm for saltational speciation by autopolyploidy and parthenogenesis in animals.
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- Phenotypic plasticity in the monoclonal marbled crayfish is associated with very low genetic diversity but pronounced epigenetic diversity.Current zoology · 2023Article
- Studying phenotypic variation and DNA methylation across development, ecology and evolution in the clonal marbled crayfish: a paradigm for investigating epigenotype-phenotype relationships in macro-invertebrates.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2022Review
- Combining Old and New Tricks: The Study of Genes, Neurons, and Behavior in Crayfish.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Physiological performance of native and invasive crayfish species in a changing environment: insights from Dynamic Energy Budget models.Conservation physiology · 2022Article
- Intergenerational Patterns of DNA Methylation inToxics · 2021Article
- Phylogeographic reconstruction of the marbled crayfish origin.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Ageing European lobsters (Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
- First Record of the Alien SpeciesLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Genome analysis of the monoclonal marbled crayfish reveals genetic separation over a short evolutionary timescale.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Epigenetic variation in animal populations: Sources, extent, phenotypic implications, and ecological and evolutionary relevance.Journal of biosciences · 2021Review
- Physiologists turned Geneticists: Identifying transcripts and genes for neuronal function in the Marbled Crayfish,Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience · 2020Article
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- How to become a successful invasive tapeworm: a case study of abandoned sexuality and exceptional chromosome diversification in the triploid carp parasite Atractolytocestus huronensis Anthony, 1958 (Caryophyllidea: Lytocestidae).Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
- Ecological plasticity and commercial impact of invasive marbled crayfish populations in Madagascar.BMC ecology · 2019Article
- The methylome of the marbled crayfish links gene body methylation to stable expression of poorly accessible genes.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2018Article
- Investigating the genetic and epigenetic basis of big biological questions with the parthenogenetic marbled crayfish: A review and perspectives.Journal of biosciences · 2018Review
- Facilitation of environmental adaptation and evolution by epigenetic phenotype variation: insights from clonal, invasive, polyploid, and domesticated animals.Environmental epigenetics · 2017Review
- The gene encoding the insulin-like androgenic gland hormone in an all-female parthenogenetic crayfish.PloS one · 2017Article
- Comprehensive DNA methylation analysis of the Aedes aegypti genome.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
The parthenogenetic all-female marbled crayfish is a novel research model and potent invader of freshwater ecosystems. It is a triploid descendant of the sexually reproducing slough crayfish, Procambarus fallax, but its taxonomic status has remained unsettled. By cross-breeding experiments and parentage analysis we show here that marbled crayfish and P. fallax are reproductively separated. Both crayfish copulate readily, suggesting that the reproductive barrier is set at the cytogenetic rather than the behavioural level. Analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes of marbled crayfish from laboratory lineages and wild populations demonstrates genetic identity and indicates a single origin. Flow cytometric comparison of DNA contents of haemocytes and analysis of nuclear microsatellite loci confirm triploidy and suggest autopolyploidisation as its cause. Global DNA methylation is significantly reduced in marbled crayfish implying the involvement of molecular epigenetic mechanisms in its origination. Morphologically, both crayfish are very similar but growth and fecundity are considerably larger in marbled crayfish, making it a different animal with superior fitness. These data and the high probability of a divergent future evolution of the marbled crayfish and P. fallax clusters suggest that marbled crayfish should be considered as an independent asexual species. Our findings also establish the P. fallax-marbled crayfish pair as a novel paradigm for rare chromosomal speciation by autopolyploidy and parthenogenesis in animals and for saltational evolution in general.
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