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Apr 15, 2009 00:31

Amazonian ants abandon sex for a world without males - The ants reproduce via cloning - the queen ants copy themselves to produce genetically identical daughters.

This species - the first ever to be shown to reproduce entirely without sex - cultivates a garden of fungus, which also reproduces asexually.

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7998931.stm

fungus, fungi, invertebrate, ants, insect

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