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

Explore how oribatid mites have thrived for millions of years without sex, using unique strategies like parthenogenesis and ...

If asexual reproduction survives at all ... and may possess two complete sets of chromosomes. One such asexual organism is the whiptail lizard in the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and South America ...

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

An international group of researchers at the University of Cologne have explored the asexual reproduction of oribatid mites ...

In sexual reproduction ... By contrast, asexual reproducers—some 70 vertebrate species and many less complex organisms—“use all the chromosomes they have” to solitarily produce offspring ...

Parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction, is precluded by the need ... which are essentially found on three chromosomes. They engineered mice with knockout mutations in two of these differentially ...

How did early biologists unravel this complex dance of chromosomes? The most obvious difference between interphase and mitosis involves the appearance of a cell's chromosomes. During interphase ...

To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system ... Others cells in your body contain 46 chromosomes: 23 from your father and 23 from your mother. Your egg (or sperm ...

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 ...