No Sex, Reproduction By Stealing DNA

Posted on June 6, 2008 at 2:05 pm.
Filed Under Nature, Science |

bdelloid rotifersAccording to Irina Arkhipova and Matthew Meselson of Harvard University in Cambridge, a tiny freshwater organisms have sex-free lifestyle and survive via stealing genes from other creatures. These organisms get their genes from bacteria, fungi and plants. These are bdelloid rotifers, a minuscule animals that appear to have sex free life style for more than 40 million years.

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