(Mutations do create a minor amount of change.) If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor it, even in competition for a niche with sexually reproducing species.

Asexual individuals can pass on their genes twice as fast as those reproducing sexually, because they pass on all their genes -- and only their genes. When reproduction is sexual, half of the ...

In collaboration with colleagues from international partner institutions, researchers at the University of Cologne have ...

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 ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE biology students studying asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction, meiosis and gamete formation, advantages and disadvantages of sexual and ...

In collaboration with colleagues from international partner institutions, researchers at the University of Cologne have ...

The finding may offer insight into a long standing question in evolutionary biology about what forces cause species to choose sex over asexual reproduction and vice versa, he said. On paper, ...

I was 15 when I first heard the term ‘asexual’ as it referred to sexual orientation rather than asexual reproduction ... as the symptom or at least a cover for my ‘real’ ailment.

An international group of researchers at the University of Cologne have explored the asexual reproduction of oribatid mites ...