Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species - Nature

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10180-9Analysis of the asexually reproducing Amazon molly Poecilia formosa and its sexually reproducing progenitors Poecilia mexicana...

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Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species - Nature

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Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10180-9Analysis of the asexually reproducing Amazon molly Poecilia formosa and its sexually reproducing progenitors Poecilia mexicana and Poecilia latipinna reveals that it maintains a divergent mutational landscape and has evaded functional mutational decay via gene conversion.