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Laboratory synthesis of an independently reproducing vertebrate species.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Jun 2011
Lutes Aracely A, Baumann Diana P, Neaves William B, Baumann Peter
Abstract excerpt
Speciation in animals commonly involves an extrinsic barrier to genetic exchange followed by the accumulation of sufficient genetic variation to impede subsequent productive interbreeding. All-female species of whiptail lizards, which originated by interspecific hybridization between sexual progenitors, are an exception to this rule. Here, the arising species instantaneously acquires a novel genotype combining...
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