Sexual reproduction is thought to be essential for mixing up genes and holding your own in the race for survival. A major embarrassment to this theory are microscopic animals called rotifers, one class of which has reproduced ...
Biotechnology
Apr 15, 2016
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Up to ten per cent of the active genes of an organism that has survived 80 million years without sex are foreign, a new study from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London reveals. The asexual organism, the ...
Biotechnology
Nov 15, 2012
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A new study shows that humans and tiny aquatic animals known as rotifers have something important in common when it comes to sex.
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- They haven't had sex in some 30 million years, but some very small invertebrates named bdelloid rotifers are still shocking biologists - they should have gone extinct long ago. Cornell researchers have discovered ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2010
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