This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on the evolution of sexual reproduction. Narrative review articles are also welcomed, to our sister journal Scientific Reviews. For ...

The evolution of sexual reproduction in living beings is one of the biggest mysteries in biology. There are two known modes of reproduction: asexual, where the organism creates clones of itself, and ...

In the course of evolution, animals have repeatedly shifted from sexual to asexual reproduction. The first evidence of the consequences of parthenogenesis – a type of asexual reproduction – on genome ...

Sexual reproduction seems, at first glance, like an evolutionary puzzle. It requires organisms to find mates, compete for reproduction and, in many species, maintain populations in which only some ...

Two novel hypotheses have been proposed that address the 'two-fold cost of sex': one of the biggest enigmas in the evolution of sexual reproduction. Two novel hypotheses have been proposed that ...

Newswise — Two novel hypotheses have been proposed that address the “two-fold cost of sex”: one of the biggest enigmas in the evolution of sexual reproduction. The evolution of sexual reproduction in ...