When it comes to reproduction, plants have options. Some can fertilize themselves, while others rely on pollen from ...

Hang Sun's group from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated the ecological and evolutionary effects of changes in plant reproductive strategies on phylogenetic ...

Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly strange ways to reproduce and care for their babies. Some moms, like crocodiles and sharks, can skip the whole sex thing, using an adaptation that ...

Unlike their relatives, individuals of the poison frog Allobates femoralis are not poisonous but are captivating due to their different behavioral profiles: They successfully reproduce with different ...

The journal Science China Life Sciences published a study reported by Academician Hang Sun’s group from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research team demonstrated the ...

Sexual reproduction is ancient and ubiquitous despite its obvious disadvantages 1 . Theory predicts that the reassortment of alleles that results from sex is necessary for natural selection to act ...

A new study reveals that plant populations do not always have to settle on either self-fertilization or cross-fertilization. Using evolutionary ...