Asexual Reproduction Usually Leads to a Lack of Genetic Diversity. Not for These Ants.
July 17, 2024
July 17, 2024
NEW YORK, July 17 (TNSres) -- Rockefeller University issued the following news:
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, forming a genomically robust offspring with two distinct versions of the species' genome.
Without that combination of different genetic makeups, asexually reproducing species typically suffer from . . .
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, forming a genomically robust offspring with two distinct versions of the species' genome.
Without that combination of different genetic makeups, asexually reproducing species typically suffer from . . .