Report of replacement of a sexual Artemia (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) by an obligate parthenogenetic lineage in a natural salt lake in China.

The article discusses the replacement of a sexual Artemia species by an obligate parthenogenetic lineage in a natural salt lake in China. Through various analyses, it was determined that the population in the lake belongs to a parthenogenetic lineage with a ploidy level of 2n. The study highlights the impact of climate change on hypersaline ecosystems and the rare occurrence of such replacements in the natural world. [Extracted from the article]