There’s been an uptick in my Google Alerts because of a new article about Marmorkrebs on SyFy Wire.
At first, I though the article was recycled from the big burst of coverage when the marbled crayfish genome was sequenced. A good chunk of the article discusses the 2018 paper, and it uses a press photo that came out at that time.
But as I saw back in 2018, when one popular news site does a story, many more will pick it up.
Update, 6 July 2022: Ths story got picked up on Yahoo! News. Good time for me to talk about the misleading title.
The title - “Cloned crayfish accidentally created in an aquarium are conquering the world” suggests people were actively mucking about with crayfish to accomplish something. No evidence of that.
There is zero evidence marbled crayfish were “created” in an aquarium. Again, it suggests human involvement when there was almost certainly none. Triploid (but maybe not reproductive) individuals of the sexual ancestor exist in wild. Early Marmorkrebs may have been collected from the wild and only later got a foothold in the aquarium trade,
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Cloned crayfish accidentally created in an aquarium are conquering the world
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