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The unusual 'love' type of deadly pathogen
A fungus that causes deadly meningitis has a very special mating strategy in which it does
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Insects also 'love' gay
The sex life of insects has long been judged to be relatively simple with sexy dance, hooked abdomen and one.
Biology
The US warns that the new
US health experts warn the emergence and spread of a sexually transmitted virus is even more dangerous than AIDS, according to Reuters on May 5.
Biology
Strange creatures have 7 genders
When protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila mate, there are 7 types of paired genes that regulate sex so the gender of the next generation will be different from their parent…
Biology
How is 'that' in plants?
If you do not take into account the social and complex factors such as the one-night or picky situation, the plants actually do it like an animal.
Biology
Mysterious animals 'stop sex' 80 million years
The tiny, all-female creature called bdelloid rotifer has survived over 80 million years on Earth without it.
Biology
Male flies produce sex stimulants to attract female flies
Scientists have discovered an aromatic substance because the male bodies of the fruit fly are sexually offensive to females.
Biology
How does the spider say 'not' to sex?
When a male spider does it, it will cut off its genitalia to
Biology
Why mantis female sexual cannibalism?
The cannibalism after mating is common in mantis and some other animals such as spiders, scorpions, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles. This is a problem that evolutionary…
Biology
Living 'loose' to avoid extinction?
The latest study by entomologists shows that the secret of big beehives is that their queen is not faithful, 'life in life' with a single mate. The more the queen bee ha…
Biology
'Hunger' sex, fruit flies turn to self-stimulation with alcohol
According to research published in the journal Science, scientists say that alcohol also stimulates the fruit's brain similarly to when it is satisfied with desire. The…
Biology
The way to use 'precious' spider's escape is extremely toxic
In some spiders, when the males have sex for the first time and sometimes for the last time, they often apply the defensive technique:
Biology
Discovering the longest living grass in the planet
Sophie Arnaud-Haond, a scientist from the French Research Institute, and her colleagues sampled from 40 seagrass beds Posidonia oceanica on an area up to 3,500km long. T…
Biology
Spiders also practice
Hundred or not used by hand, that is the lesson that every leg spider has absorbed to the heart: The young spiders will
Biology
'Change gifts for sex' in insects
The male Nursery-Web spider (belonging to the family Pisaura mirabilis) prepares silk-wrapped gifts carefully to give the spider what they like. Most of the gifts contai…