Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

The world has come a long way in recognizing the diversity of human sexual experience. In 1948, it was revolutionary for biologist Alfred Kinsey to describe sexual orientation as a continuum (from ...

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a globally significant fungal pathogen that affects a wide range of economically important crops. Its population structure is complex, owing to a combination of clonal ...

The ‘paradox of sex’ refers to the puzzle of why the sexual mode of reproduction is more common among living beings than the asexual mode. Sexual reproduction requires at least two mates, exposes ...