Animals more likely to eat their young are those with faster reproductive cycles. “Species that have large broods might be ...

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, ...

Cristian Cañestro has received fund PID2022-141627NB-I00 for MICIU/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033, and "FEDER una manera de hacer Europa", ICREA-Academia Ac2215698, and 2021SGR00372 AGAUR, Generalitat de ...

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Lucinda Aulsebrook does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The energy invested in animal reproduction is as much as 10 times greater than previously estimated when the metabolic load of bearing and caring for offspring is accounted for, according to a new ...

Nagoya University researchers discovered a gene that actively suppresses food-odor detection in roundworms after reproduction ...