Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 6 (2015), pp. 2108-2120 (13 pages) Here we report the effects of elevated pCO₂ on the model symbiotic anemone Exaiptasia pallida and how its association with ...

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 two partners combining ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

For years scientists have known that some species of sharks, fish and lizards are capable of "virgin births," asexual reproduction known as parthenogenesis that occurs when unfertilized eggs develop.

Why are most organisms sexual? The question of why most species reproduce sexually and others reproduce asexually has stymied biologists for years (particularly since asexual reproduction has many ...

A team led by biologists at The University of Texas at Arlington has published a study supporting the theory that species that reproduce asexually have more harmful genetic mutations than those ...

Sharks have been known to reproduce either sexually or asexually, but it's usually one or the other. Now, researchers have observed the first documented case of a zebra (or leopard) shark switching ...

The California condor is one of the rarest birds in the world, but now it seems that nature is giving it an unexpected leg-up. Scientists have discovered two condor chicks that were born from ...