New research shows bacteria form distinct species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange via homologous recombination.

While sexual reproduction is the predominant strategy among animals, some species have evolved the ability to reproduce asexually ...

"This may be fundamentally different from sexual reproduction in animals, plants, fungi, and non-bacterial organisms, where DNA is exchanged during meiosis, but the outcome in terms of species ...

For instance, organisms including aphids and daphnia reproduce asexually when resources are abundant and switch to sex only at the end of the season, when the potential for asexual reproduction is ...

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 ...

Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary fission, meaning asexual reproduction, while also engaging in infrequent ... “This may be fundamentally different from ...

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

advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction, organisms which use asexual and sexual reproduction, DNA structure, the human genome, protein synthesis, and mutations. If you ...

For most living things, sexual reproduction has proven the best ... Efficiency, for one thing, is on the side of asexual organisms: Without the need for males, every clonal individual passes ...

On Jan. 3, a swell shark egg hatched at Shreveport Aquarium in Shreveport, Louisiana. The egg was discovered by aquarium staff in a female shark tank about eight months ago, but it may have remained ...