How To Survive Without Sex, Still Produce 460 Species
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 11:20
in Biology & Nature
Adineta vaga, the delloid rotifer, abandoned sex yet still produced more than 460 species over evolutionary time. Rather than the standard way of using sexual reproduction to weed out harmful mutations to its DNA, this tiny aquatic animal appears to have adopted other strategies to maintain lineages over millennia that aren't burdened by genetic damage or killed off altogether. read more