Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary fission, meaning asexual reproduction, while also engaging in infrequent genetic exchange. Using a novel bioinformatic ...

New research shows bacteria form distinct species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange via homologous recombination.

Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary fission, meaning asexual reproduction, while also engaging in infrequent genetic exchange. Using a novel bioinformatic ...

What keeps them cohesive?” Traditionally, it has been assumed that microbial evolution occurs primarily through asexual reproduction, specifically binary fission, with only sporadic genetic ...

“Not all shareholders full appreciated what we have bought,” said Paladin’s CEO Ian Purdy in reference to the uranium miner’s C$1.1bn all-share takeover of Fission Uranium Corp. The transaction, first ...

she would wonder. It wasn’t until she was 17 and voiced her frustrations in her high school lunchroom that a friend suggested she may be asexual. Although Busits had never heard of the term ...

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"This may be fundamentally different from sexual reproduction in animals, plants, fungi, and non-bacterial organisms, where DNA is exchanged during meiosis, but the outcome in terms of species ...

A better understanding of dinosaur evolutionary relationships has given paleontologists a framework from which to hypothesize about different aspects of dinosaur reproduction, and those ideas have ...

The whole 'fission' process can thus be described in an essentially classical way, without having to consider quantum-mechanical 'tunnel effects', which would actually be extremely small ...