What is Selfing?
This week, we’ve got new info about the strange-looking Tully Monster, and a report on a fish that was able to self-fertilize.
Annotation:
Parthenogenesis https://youtu.be/BJIe6rIEsE0
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Sources:
Tully Monster
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature16992.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tully-monster-mystery-solved-scientists-say/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160316-tully-monster-vertebrate-fossil-animal-paleontology-science/
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/solving-the-mystery-of-the-tully-monster/473823/
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/education/wns/lampreys.pdf
https://archive.org/stream/pennsylvanianinv128john#page/n11/mode/2up
Fish Selfing
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150684
Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birgus_latro_(Bora-Bora).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aye-aye_at_night_in_the_wild_in_Madagascar.jpg
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/yu-stm031516.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/110891.php?from=321726
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/fm-mms031016.php
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petromyzon_marinus.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boca_de_lamprea.1_-_Aquarium_Finisterrae.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pundamilia_pundamilia.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arabidopsis_thaliana_inflorescencias.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tullimonstrum_gregarium1.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Texas.jpg
