WOODS HOLE, Mass. — In case you were wondering, Kristin Gribble is not a basher of fruit flies or roundworms. She wants to be clear: She bears no ill will toward those invertebrates so often studied ...

The vast majority of animals rely on sex to maintain a diverse and healthy gene pool. Not so for the rotifer, a type of microscopic creature that lives in puddles and munches on pond scum. Bdelloid ...

How a group of animals can abandon sex, yet produce more than 460 species over evolutionary time, became a little less mysterious this week with the publication of the complete genome of a bdelloid ...

If sex is so great, how has the bdelloid rotifer been able to do without it for 30 million years? That's a puzzle scientists at Cornell University think they have an answer to. But what is a bdelloid ...

Russian researchers have pulled off a feat that sounds closer to science fiction than standard lab work, reviving microscopic “zombie worms” that had been locked in Arctic ice for roughly 24,000 years ...

While genes encode for proteins, gene expression has to happen at the right time and place, and there are many things that can influence gene activity, such as small changes in the genome, or genes ...

A new study shows that humans and tiny aquatic animals known as rotifers have something important in common when it comes to sex. Barely visible without a microscope, rotifers eat algae and serve ...

The differences among the copepod, rotifer and Who communities cannot be discerned by the naked eye. It took a loud “yopp” from JoJo, a tiny denizen of Whoville, to reveal their existence to the ...

The bdelloid rotifer – a minuscule microorganism invisible to the naked eye – can survive being frozen for 24,000 years, a new study reveals. Russian experts say the microscopic invertebrate, about ...