(Santa Barbara, Calif.) Why are most organisms sexual? The question of why most species reproduce sexually and others reproduce asexually has stymied biologists for years (particularly since asexual ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Like most lichen, reindeer lichen can reproduce both sexually and asexually, by sending out spores or simply cloning themselves. Previously, researchers assumed reindeer lichen, ...

The Pro1 protein helps express mating-related genes in different species of fungi. But what happens when Pro1 malfunctions? Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science have found that mutations ...