BIO

Welcome! My name is Emanuel Kogan, Born and Raised in Israel and Migrated to America at the age of 10. I am currently a Senior at Florida State University majoring in Public Health & Psychology with a minor in Biology as well as a chemistry.

Oxygen Consumption Varies among Amazon Molly Clones

Abstract

Behavioral and physiological variation within and among clonal lineages has long been assumed to be limited in natural asexual species.
We investigate 2 questions:
Do clones show intra-individual variation in oxygen consumption across three days?
How does this variation compare across five distinct clonal lineages?
We test these questions using Amazon mollies, a small-bodied, gynogenetic fish native to South Texas to North Mexico.
Although one originally clonal lineage occurred from this hybridization event, many clonal lineages now overlap across the entire species range. This diversity among Amazon mollies has occurred through various events (i.e., mutation, complete or incomplete incorporation of male genetic material, etc.).
Here, we investigate how five distinct clonal lineages vary in their metabolic consumption of oxygen, this will allow us to quantify metabolic variation in a clonal species.

Keywords: Amazon Molly, Clones, Oxygen