asexual reproduction

Most animals can’t pass on mutations that arise spontaneously throughout their lives—but Elkhorn corals can.

Off the western Australian coast, in Shark Bay, a field of seagrass big enough to cover Washington, DC, has flourished for more than four millennia, a new study finds.

Hydra vulgaris constantly replenish the cells in their heads and grow new ones to reproduce asexually. But gene expression analyses reveal that regenerating a head after an injury is a very different process.

The hardy animals were pulled from the permafrost in Siberia, giving scientists the opportunity to study how they survive extreme conditions.

A variety of yeasts collected near Woods Hole, Massachusetts, show unconventional cell division.

Asexual female nematodes use their male offsprings’ sperm to fertilize eggs, but cast away their genes.

A re-analysis of sequencing data from a 2016 study of these tiny metazoans reveals possible contamination, rather than an exchange of DNA among species.

Research suggests that the invasive, all-female Procambarus virginalis originated in a German aquarium back in the 1990s.

Poecilia formosa, an all-female fish species, has a surprisingly robust genome. 

A fish created by spontaneous androgenesis is the first known vertebrate to arise naturally by this asexual reproductive phenomenon. 

Scientists use 12 microsatellites to watch as one captive female swellshark produces five pups without fertilization from a male.

Deep-sea rangeomorphs that lived more than 540 million years ago used two methods of reproduction, according to a study of fossils.

DNA fingerprinting analysis of a population of sawfish reveals evidence of asexual reproduction in the wild.

Birds do it. Bees do it. We do it. But not without a physical, biochemical, and genetic price. How did the costly practice of sex become so commonplace?

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

Scientists find snakes give “virgin birth” in the wild for the first time

In pondering genome structure and function, evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst has arrived at some unanticipated conclusions about how natural selection has molded our DNA.

Coral embryos broken apart by waves can continue developing into adult clones.

The colorful and fragile start to the life of a living reef