How do epigenetic modifications influence sexual development and reproduction?

Oct 18, 2001 ... Studies by scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara show that sexual reproduction wins out, in an evolutionary sense, over ... Sexual reproduction requires the union of two specialized cells, called gametes, each of which contains one set of chromosomes. When two gametes unite, they ... What drives the maintenance of sexual reproduction in Eukaryota is a key question in evolutionary biology. Modelling and empirical studies investigating ... Nov 26, 2024 ... ABSTRACTTranscription factors (TFs) involved in sexual reproduction in filamentous fungi have been characterized. Sexual reproduction is a very costly process: the growth rate of asexual lineages exceeds that of sexual lineages. Nonetheless, sex is prevalent in nature. Sexual reproduction is a natural way of reproduction in humans, animals and ... This type of reproduction is more complex and lengthy as compared to asexual ... Sep 25, 2021 ... This study describes the influence of decreasing pH on sexual reproduction of the temperate non-zooxanthellate colonial scleractinian Astroides calycularis. Nov 9, 2010 ... Information on sexual reproduction is now available for 444 scleractinian species, and confirms that hermaphroditic broadcast spawning is the ... Bdelloid rotifers, common freshwater invertebrates of ancient origin and worldwide distribution have long been thought to be entirely asexual. During sexual reproduction, two haploid gametes combine into one diploid cell known as a zygote in a process called fertilization. The nuclei from the gametes ...