The hybrid freshwater fish actually reproduces exclusively female clones, doing so for much longer than scientists thought ...

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without ...

image: An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the Amazon molly, a fish that reproduces asexually. The researchers expected that the asexual organism would be at a genetic ...

For most animals, survival is a game of chance. Sexual reproduction mixes DNA, keeping the gene pool diverse and giving evolution more options. When a species stops mixing genes, it usually goes ...

LMU computational biologist helps uncover how the Amazon molly maintains a healthy genome without sexual reproduction The Amazon molly is a remarkable species: all individuals are female and reproduce ...

WASHINGTON — An all-female freshwater fish species called the Amazon molly that inhabits rivers and creeks along the Texas-Mexico border is living proof that sexual reproduction may be vastly ...

In the rivers of Mexico and southern Texas in the United States, a silvery-scaled fish swims that seems, according to ...

No species is immune from the suffering of unrequited love, but scientists expect to learn volumes about the biological basis of sex from the newly sequenced genome of an all-female, asexual Texas ...

A tiny river fish, the Amazon molly, has survived 100,000 years without males, revealing alternative ways life maintains ...