Talk about a dry spell. Microscopic bdelloid rotifers have seemingly evolved without sex for millions of years and probably don’t exist in male form, say Harvard University biologists. The bdelloid ...
Like escape artists, rotifers elude enemies by drying up and -- poof! -- they are gone with the wind
They haven't had sex in some 30 million years, but some very small invertebrates named bdelloid rotifers are still shocking biologists -- they should have gone extinct long ago. Researchers have ...
Could you give up sex and survive? Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Apparently microscopic, spineless critters named bdelloids (yes, ...
Up to 10 percent of the active genes of an organism that has survived 80 million years without sex are foreign, a new study reveals. The asexual organism, the bdelloid rotifer, has acquired a tenth of ...
Seventy-five years ago, in the title of their classic send-up of how- to books, James Thurber and E.B. White famously asked, "Is Sex Necessary?" At last, an answer is emerging: No, sex isn't necessary ...
Where do you get your genes? If you are an animal, you inherit them from your parents at the moment of conception, and that's about it. No later incorporation of environmental DNA for you, unless you ...
The tiny, all-female bdelloid rotifers have endured the past 80 million years without sex. New research shows that gobbling up foreign DNA from other simple life-forms might be the asexual animal's ...
Bdelloid rotifers are one of the strangest of all animals. Uniquely, these small, freshwater invertebrates reproduce entirely asexually and have avoided sex for some 80 million years. At any point of ...
In Mother Nature's edition of the TV reality show Survivor, the bdelloid rotifers would probably be the last animals standing. These tiny aquatic creatures can survive high blasts of radiation and ...
Members of the only all-girl, asexual class of animals turn out to be loose. Bdelloidea DNA is tangled up with DNA from all dregs of life – animals, plants, bacteria and even fungi. The shocking ...
The tiny, all-female bdelloid rotifers have endured the past 80 million years without sex. New research shows that gobbling up foreign DNA from other simple life-forms might be the asexual animal's ...
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