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he big, he attac

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The downside to cloning as a reproductive system is that the entire population will have the same genetics and be vulnerable to the same diseases and poisons.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Aphids don’t care.

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      • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Aphids do sexual reproduction in autumn. It’s just spring/summer they clone.

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    • CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t there still be random mutations caused by epigenetics over time?

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      • Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure, but the population would be so similar that it probably wouldn’t make much difference.

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      • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        if the environment is stable , then parthonogenesis would be common.

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  • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the Clone Wars would have been a lot more interesting if the clone troopers just split/budded, would explain all the different patterns and emerging behaviors

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    • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Get your stormtroopers the starfish cloning, trooper loses an arm, wait a week and two troopers

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    invasive plants do this all the time, they are hard to eradicate once they become establish.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Too many crawdads are not a problem as long as you got a pot of boiling water

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    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re actually quite a big problem. They dig in the sides of canals and dikes causing them to destabilise and collapse

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      • Sidhean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Way too many crawdads are not a problem as long as you boil the entire sea

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They have also caused the ecrevisse à pattes blanches (the native european one) to go near extinct.

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  • kraftpudding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hope he’s at least tasty

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  • thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He make a good snak

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  • perestroika@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Realizing that they reproduce via parthenogenesis, and this involves laying eggs, I think the appropriate title would be “she big, she attac”. :)

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  • azi@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Marbled crayfish are pretty cool. A new species that evolved in captivity

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    • Sidhean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, these things are wild! A new species that clones itself rapidly, can carry a crayfish-killing plague, and is relatively rapidly colonizing the planet (freshwater only).

      This feels like a thing spiders do. They can produce several clutches of eggs after mating once. If, without a mate, they could just… do that, “even a single wolf spider egg can contaminate an entire planet.”

      Its a good year for crayfish sci-fi horror

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      • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        people often forget invasive species often bring diseases with them, that they are adapted to but in a new environment with others species that have no natural immunity, it would wipe native populations faster than the actual animal itself.

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    he go clack, clack, clack?

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