Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...
Ament-Velásquez, S. L., Figuet, E., Ballenghien, M., Zattara, Eduardo E., Norenburg, Jon L., Fernández-Álvarez, F. A., Bierne, J., Bierne, N., and Galtier, N. 2016 ...
A team led by biologists at The University of Texas at Arlington has published a study supporting the theory that species that reproduce asexually have more harmful genetic mutations than those ...