A new study shows that humans and tiny aquatic animals known as rotifers have something important in common when it comes to sex. Barely visible without a microscope, rotifers eat algae and serve ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Bdelloid rotifers are ancient, asexual, oddballs. The teeny-tiny ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract According to resource allocation theory, animals face a trade off between the allocation of resources into reproduction and into individual ...

A new study shows that humans and tiny aquatic animals known as rotifers have something important in common when it comes to sex. Barely visible without a microscope, rotifers eat algae and serve ...

This article originally appeared in Sick Papes, a blog about exciting new science papers. Today’s Sick Pape focuses on one of the types of animals that Leeuwenhoek saw when he magnified a drop of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. In monogonont rotifers parthenogenetic reproduction allows population growth, and mictic (sexual) reproduction leads to the production of ...

You inherited your genes from your parents, half from your father and half from your mother. Almost all other animals contend with the same hand-me-down processes, but not the bdelloid rotifers. This ...

The choice to have sex has everything to do with location, at least for tiny freshwater creatures called rotifers. Rotifers can reproduce sexually or asexually, and the decision to go one way or ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Texas at El Paso and Ripon College in Wisconsin a four-year grant worth more than $1.5 ...