Abstract
The backbone of this endeavour consists of three major components as they appear in the title. My intention is to summarise, as explicitly as possible, both existing and novel data on the occurrence of parthenogenetic rare males assessing their role in conveying sets of genetic information between asexual strains and sexual Artemia species to and fro. Additionally, an assemblage of strong indications and evidence is quoted aiming to unravel possible scenarios of the repeated emergence of asexuality in the brine shrimp and its significance in evolutionary processes involved in speciation.
Highlights
The backbone of this endeavour consists of three major components as they appear in the title
Two of the sexuals are found in the New World (i.e. A. franciscana and A. persimilis) and the rest (i.e. A. salina, A. urmiana, A. tibetiana and A. sinica) inhabit Old World saline-hypersaline water bodies while parthenogenetic populations occur exclusively in the Old World
Artemia, and especially asexual populations, are prone to mishaps during cell division which result in chromosomal aberrations tolerably compatible with survivorship of the bearer [7, 11]; this inclination will be discussed in the light of the emergence of rare males in parthenogenetic populations
Summary
The backbone of this endeavour consists of three major components as they appear in the title. *Correspondence: abatzop@bio.auth.gr Department of Genetics, Development & Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece on, ‘Parthenogenetic Rare Males’ or PRMs. In this review, I shall focus on disclosing the often-misinterpreted role of these males as transport agents of long genomic regions resulting in the recurring emergence of asexuality.
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