Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Ants in the Amazon have Stopped Having Sex!

A species of Ants has been found in the amazon that stopped having sex: "The ants reproduce via cloning - the queen ants copy themselves to produce genetically identical daughters." The ants have created a society of all female ants, "This species - the first ever to be shown to reproduce entirely without sex - cultivates a garden of fungus, which also reproduces asexually."

-Article from BBC News Website


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