A team of scientists has sequenced, for the first time, a tiny worm that belongs to a group of exclusively asexual species that originated approximately 18 million years ago -- making it one of the ...

For the first time, a team of researchers has sequenced a tiny, exclusively asexual species of worm that originated around 18 million years ago. This work confirms that this species is among the ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) Why are most organisms sexual? The question of why most species reproduce sexually and others reproduce asexually has stymied biologists for years (particularly since asexual ...