{"id":35052,"date":"2011-05-08T15:43:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/one-generation-new-species-%e2%80%93-all-female-lizard-bred-in-a-lab-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T15:43:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:24","slug":"one-generation-new-species-%e2%80%93-all-female-lizard-bred-in-a-lab-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/one-generation-new-species-%e2%80%93-all-female-lizard-bred-in-a-lab-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"One generation, new species \u2013 all-female lizard bred in a lab | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ee3f4_Hybrid_whiptails1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4476\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ee3f4_Hybrid_whiptails1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"451\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>In a lab in Kansas, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/research.stowers-institute.org\/baumannlab\/LabMembers.htm\">Aracely Lutes<\/a> has created a new species of all-female lizard that reproduces by cloning itself. There wasn&rsquo;t any genetic engineering involved; Lutes did it with just a single round of breeding.<\/p><p>This feat stands in stark contrast to the slow pace at which species usually arise. Here&rsquo;s the typical story: different populations become separated in some way, whether by space, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2009\/02\/09\/how-diversity-creates-itself-cascades-of-new-species-among-flies-and-parasitic-wasps\/\">time<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2009\/05\/12\/giant-insect-splits-cavefish-into-distinct-populations\/\">predators<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2009\/11\/05\/discriminating-butterflies-show-how-one-species-could-split-into-two\/\">sexual preferences<\/a>, or an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/NotRocketScience\/~3\/UAP1fVnqVKU\/\">inability to understand one another<\/a>. Differences gradually build up between them, until they can no longer produce fit and fertile offspring. Voila &ndash; where there was once one species, there are now two.<\/p><p>There are exceptions to this recurring tale of slow divergence. Different species sometimes mate to create hybrids, whose genomes are a mash-up of those of their parents. These individuals are often infertile (think mules) or weak. But in rare cases, they survive and prosper. For example, there is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/06\/01\/holy-hybrids-batman-caribbean-fruit-bat-is-a-mash-up-of-three-species\/\">a hybrid bat<\/a> from the Caribbean that combines the genomes of three separate species, one of which is now extinct. Other mammals including the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Wolf#Taxonomy\">red wolf<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stump-tailed_Macaque\">stump-tailed macaque<\/a> might also be ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ee3f4_pPe9cfSdVTY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ee3f4_mLIDcmHp0kE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lab in Kansas, Aracely Lutes has created a new species of all-female lizard that reproduces by cloning itself. There wasn&rsquo;t any genetic engineering involved; Lutes did it with just a single round of breeding.This feat stands in stark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/one-generation-new-species-%e2%80%93-all-female-lizard-bred-in-a-lab-not-exactly-rocket-science.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}