Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Balanophora' species are parasitic plants that live underground and emerge above ground only during the flowering season, and ...

Asexual, or vegetative, reproduction in plants is controlled by environmental conditions, but the molecular signaling pathways that control this process are poorly understood. Recent research suggests ...

The California condor is one of the rarest birds in the world, but now it seems that nature is giving it an unexpected leg-up. Scientists have discovered two condor chicks that were born from ...

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 ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Further analysis of PifA and PifB revealed that they exhibit many of the characteristics of eukaryotic host-associated ...

Premise of the Study: Perennial grasses maintain aboveground tiller populations through vegetative reproduction via below-ground buds and sexual reproduction via seed. The maintenance of a bud bank ...