This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A synopsis is provided of different expressions of whole-animal vertebrate clonality (asexual organismal-level reproduction), both in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The spatial interaction of clonal organisms is an unsolved but crucial topic in evolutionary biology. We evaluated the interactions between ...

Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A fungal disease that poses a serious threat to cacao plants - the source of chocolate - reproduces clonally, Purdue University researchers find. The fungus Moniliophthora ...

Pentaploid Rosa canina’s flower reveals its unique sexual reproduction: asymmetric meiosis creates haploid pollen (anthers) transmitting only bivalent-forming chromosomes, while ovaries inherit both ...

Little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) colonies reveal an unexpected mode of reproduction. Denis Fournier, from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, and colleagues studied the DNA of queens, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Cloning human beings for the purpose of reproduction is medically unsafe and should be banned, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences concluded Friday. The scientific report ...

A panel convened by the National Research Council said Friday that Congress should pass a federal law prohibiting scientists from using cloning technologies to create a child. Noting that the Senate ...