Annals of Botany, Vol. 121, No. 7 (June 2018), pp. 1287-1298 (12 pages) Background and Aims Alpine plants grow in harsh environments and are thought to face occasional frost during the sensitive ...

Earliest evidence of reproduction in a complex organism Press release issued: 3 August 2015 How some of the first complex organisms on Earth – possibly some of the first animals to exist – reproduced ...

Sexual reproduction, a common mode of reproduction among numerous species, involves gametogenesis in which offspring are produced through fertilization, conjugation, or mating. In plants and animals, ...

An artist's impression reveals what a Fractofusus community looked like 565 million years ago One of the earliest complex organisms had a surprisingly complicated sex life, scientists say. Until now, ...

The Pro1 protein helps express mating-related genes in different species of fungi. But what happens when Pro1 malfunctions? Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science have found that mutations ...

In the debate over human origins and the nature of sexual reproduction, religious and scientific perspectives often diverge. The Bible claims man came first, with women derived from man’s rib. Yet, ...