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Detecting female sexual hormones in plants
Until now, scientists still think that only animals produce female sex hormones, progesteron, a chemical group of steroids produced by the ovaries to prepare the uterus…
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Biology
Homosexuality: Do genes?
Korean scientists hope to find a link between genes and homosexuality in humans.
Biology
The process of yeast reproduction does not have mating genes
A type of sexual cycle pathogenic yeast is able to turn into sexual intercourse in spite of a lack of reproductive genes.
Biology
Parasites only mate when enough
On the Science page this week, he and his colleagues at the National Institutes of Health reported that they finally found the answer: putting enough Leishmania individu…
Biology
Termites do not necessarily have to reproduce sexually
Scientists at the University of North Carolina and three other universities in Japan have demonstrated for the first time that lords can reproduce in both sexual and ase…
Biology
The small fungus reproduces sexually when it infects the host
A fungus called microsporidia that causes chronic diarrhea in AIDS patients has recently been listed as a member of the mushroom family.
Biology
The male 'does not manage the distance' to find a partner
Finding a mate can be a hard work, the giant night cricket Cook Strait, Deinacrida rugosa, is a living testament to that.
Biology
Large horns cause small organs to mate
The sometimes bizarre display features that increase the chance of finding animal partners also affect the reproductive process of the population as well as the evolutio…
Biology
No sexual reproduction but still gene exchange
From where do we have our own genome? If it is an animal, a gene comes from a parent's conception, and that's it. There is no subsequent combination of DNA unless we hav…
Biology
DNA is the focal point of reproductive activity
According to a new study published by Imperial biologist in PNAS in April, there is one type of wild yeast every 1,000 generations of asexual reproduction that exists in…
Biology
The ability to repair genes can compensate for sex
Birds and bees all have sexual intercourse between males and females, but tiny creatures of the bdelloid rotifer class seem to be completely satisfied with their sexless…
Biology
Homosexual intercourse in fruit flies
Researcher David Featherstone, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, led the team who discovered that sexual orientation in fruit flies is controlled by an unknown n…
Biology
Light stimulates sexual desire in spiders
According to a study published in Science, the ultraviolet rays of light stimulate sexual desire in some jumping spiders (Cosmophasis umbratica
Biology
Vietnam successfully produced artificial seeds
Seeds are usually taken from gardens and fields after harvest. It is a sexual seed, created by the pollination process in plants. But recently scientists at Dalat Biolog…
Animal world
Animals 'love to die' are included in the Red Book
As revealed by scientists, every mating season, male antechinus will