- How To Survive Without Sex, Still Produce 460 Species
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... to produce sperm or eggs) have ever been observed in a bdelloid rotifer. Instead, the unfertilized eggs just divide to produce ... and segregate into new sperm and egg cells. In the bdelloid genome, gene copies either don't match up positionally along ... of deleterious mutations or generate new diversity? The bdelloid genome shows evidence for other ways of maintaining healthy genes and ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2013 - 9:34am - 0 attachments
- Sex And Unified Field Theory R&D
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... can shed these mistakes. Some asexual animals, like the bdelloid rotifer (a small multicellular animal), have developed other means to ...
Article - Doug Sweetser - Jul 23 2011 - 4:38pm - 0 attachments
- How Bdelloid Rotifers Resist Extinction - DNA Repair And No Sex
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... and it's responsible for a lot of medical problems. Bdelloid rotifers have been able to give up sex and escape the usual drawback ... resulting in at least 370 species. The bdelloid rotifer Philodina roseola. Bdelloids live in ephemeral aquatic ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2010 - 6:10pm - 1 attachment
- Lesbian Necrophiliacs - Why Discover Is Bigger Than We Are
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Well, two reasons; reason one is that if we write about bdelloid rotifers we just make reference to bdelloid rotifers but if they write about bdelloid rotifers, they find a ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2008 - 11:53am - 0 attachments
- Free Radicals And Aging Discovery - This Aquatic Animal Is Resistant To Radiation
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... observed under microscopes in high-school biology classes, bdelloid rotifers are highly unusual in several regards: They appear to be ... apparently unique resistance to radiation. Bdelloid rotifers. Credit: Diego Fontaneto A new study shows bdelloid ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2008 - 10:22am - 1 attachment
- No Sex For 40 Million Years? No Problem
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... published in PLoS Biology, focuses on the study of bdelloid rotifers, microscopic aquatic animals that live in watery or ... are no males. Fossil records and molecular data show that bdelloid rotifers have been around for over 40 million years without sexually ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2007 - 12:29am - 0 attachments
- Do You Need Sex To Be A Species?
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... one of evolutionary biology’s most puzzling enigmas: bdelloid rotifers. These microscopic invertebrates—widely distributed in ... electron micrographs showing morphological variation of bdelloid rotifers and their jaws. Have these asexual animals really diversified ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2007 - 12:36pm - 0 attachments
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