Tuesday 21 April 2009

No sex please


An Amazonian ant has dispensed with sex and developed into an all-female species, researchers have found. The ants reproduce via cloning - the queen ants copy themselves to produce genetically identical daughters. This species - the first ever to be shown to reproduce entirely without sex - cultivates a garden of fungus, which also reproduces asexually. The finding of the ants' "world without sex" is published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Anna Himler, the biologist from the University of Arizona who led the research, told BBC News that the team used a battery of tests to verify their findings.

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as the blog started becoming too male and too greek I thought this post appropriate ;)
We really don't know much about reality and nature even though we think we do...

2 comments:

graoutso said...

Hurah for the amazon ants. They are showing the way ;-)

miscelenious said...

oh yes baby

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