In collaboration with colleagues from international partner institutions, researchers at the University of Cologne have ...

Those outlier liaisons gave whiptails robust heterozygosity, which has been preserved by the identical replication—essentially, cloning—that occurs in asexual reproduction. It’s a genetic ...

For most living things, sexual reproduction has proven the best ... this minnow outlasts more specialized strains. Asexual animals arose from diversified sexually reproducing ancestors.

Almost all animals reproduce sexually, as well as many plants and fungi species. However, not all organisms reproduce sexually: asexual reproduction is common among single-cell organisms such as ...

Imagine a gene that promotes sexual reproduction, such as by making it more likely that a plant will reproduce via sexually produced seeds as opposed to some asexual process (e.g., budding ...

Some organisms reproduce by sexual and asexual reproduction, but this depends on the particular circumstances.

Coprinus cinereus also produces spores by asexual reproduction. These spores can be produced quickly and in large numbers to enable many individual fungi to develop. A disadvantage of these spores ...

Asexual reproduction ... However, in the animal kingdom (especially in vertebrates, where sexual reproduction is the norm) there are rare instances of “virgin births,” or parthenogenesis.