Re:Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first
by thaumasiotes on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:22AM
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There are other known ways of one individual being able to start a new population:
- The simplest and most obvious way to do this is to be a clonal organism.
- But you can go more complicated than that. You can have a female parthenogenetically give birth to males and then mate with those males. Aphids do this. (Actually, some cursory research suggests that aphids are more likely to give parthenogenetic birth to a batch of sons and daughters who then mate with each other?)
- The simplest and most obvious way to do this is to be a clonal organism.
- But you can go more complicated than that. You can have a female parthenogenetically give birth to males and then mate with those males. Aphids do this. (Actually, some cursory research suggests that aphids are more likely to give parthenogenetic birth to a batch of sons and daughters who then mate with each other?)