Ingo Schlupp – Professor and Director of the International Stock Center of Livebearing Fishes, University of Oklahoma
Abstract: Amazon mollies are among the few asexual vertebrates. They reproduce via sperm dependent parthenogenesis. They are a hybrid species that was formed in a single event that cannot be recreated in the laboratory. I will discuss this unique speciation event and its consequences and contrast that with other modes of speciation also found in livebearing fishes.