Cloning In The Animal Kingdom 123
tanveer1979 writes "The New Scientist is carrying an interesting article
on cloning in nature." From the article: "The ant Wasmannia Auropunctata, which is native to Central and South America but has spread into the US and beyond, has opted for a unique stand-off in the battle of the sexes. Both queens and males reproduce by making genetically identical copies of themselves - so males and females seem to have entirely separate gene pools. Conventional reproduction happens only to produce workers. This is the first instance in the animal kingdom where males reproduce exclusively by cloning, though male honeybees do it occasionally." National Geographic is also carrying the story.
Attack of the Clones! (Score:1, Funny)
Re: Ants in the Pants (Score:5, Funny)
Does Cloning Help...? (Score:5, Funny)
Reproduction through cloning (Score:5, Funny)
Are you kidding? How do you think Slashdotters reproduce?
Obvious first though from certain "parties" (Score:4, Funny)
Re: Ants in the Pants (Score:5, Funny)
Rice (Score:1, Funny)
Oh shit! I thought they were stealing rice from my kitchen, so I stole it back and later used it to make stir fry. *gag*
Here in the mechanics' garage... (Score:5, Funny)
Huh. Around here, we hang up posters of nekkid queen ants. Oooooh, those unarticulated segements! Kind of makes you want to pupate, doesn't it?
zerg (Score:3, Funny)
Raid (Score:2, Funny)
A: He sprays it with Raid.
Lame, I know....
Selfish Women! (Score:3, Funny)
"'It's a selfish strategy initiated by females [in which] queens transmit 100 percent of their genome,' Fournier said."
Wow, sounds like Fournier is waging his own battle of the sexes. Those selfish females, they want to clone themselves rather than have sex with me!
Re:Is that anything like... (Score:3, Funny)
Here come the christians... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reproduction through cloning (Score:4, Funny)
There is no way you can have the words: "think", "slashdotters" and "reproduce" in 1 sentence without having at least 1 impossibility.
Re:small case species (Score:2, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)