Parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction, is precluded by the need ... eliminating the loci that are known to be inactivated in a haploid paternal genome they would create a maternal genome that ...

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 ...

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

James Tiptree, Jr.'s 1969 story "Your Haploid Heart" concerns an interplanetary ... people who possess two distinct and alternating modes of reproduction. One generation is large, long-lived, asexual, ...

Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction ...