February 13, 2018
Molecular biologists have sequenced the genome of an invasive species of crayfish that can reproduce without mating and is spreading rapidly across Madagascar. The marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) was first spotted in aquariums in Germany in the 1990s. Now, DNA sequencing suggests that the species is probably the product of two distantly related members of a different crayfish species, a team reported on February 5 in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Source: Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geneticists-unravel-secrets-of-super-invasive-crayfish/?sf181444377=1