These mites have likely been asexual for tens of millions of years, dating back to before Europe and North America separated.

Jellyfish are among the oldest animals on Earth, found in all the world's oceans and serve as valuable model systems for ...

Those outlier liaisons gave whiptails robust heterozygosity, which has been preserved by the identical replication—essentially, cloning—that occurs in asexual reproduction. It’s a genetic ...

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 ...

Mutations in the DNA can have serious implications. This short video explains the process of mitosis in growth and asexual reproduction.