Among vertebrates, or animals with backbones, asexual reproduction is more rare. However, California condors, New Mexico whiptail lizards and certain fish all reproduce via a process known as ...

Asexual Reproducers: For most living things, sexual reproduction has proven the best overall strategy to perpetuate a species in the rough-and-tumble, unpredictable fray of natural selection.With ...

Asexual propagation of crop plants gets closer Date: February 15, 2024 Source: University of Zurich Summary: When the female gametes in plants become fertilized, a signal from the sperm activates ...

In the animal kingdom, reproduction is a necessary part of species survival. Learn about 12 animals that reproduce asexually and don't need a mate.

It is generally believed that sexual reproduction leads to fewer harmful genetic mutations than asexual reproduction. In their new study, Maldonado and his co-authors tested this theory by ...

Asexual, or vegetative, reproduction in plants is controlled by environmental conditions, but the molecular signaling pathways that control this process are poorly understood. Recent research ...

PROBABLY no scientific problem more urgently needs attention in tropical agriculture than the establishment of standard yielding plantations from selected plants by methods of vegetative propagation.

Green anacondas are on a lengthening list of animals able to give birth without a mate. The more animals in which biologists discover asexual reproduction, the more they are rethinking the basics ...

Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science have found that mutations in Pro1 cause female sterility of the rice blast fungus, Pyricularia (Magnaporthe) oryzae, coupled with an increase the ...