No sex please, we’re rotifers: Tiny aquatic animals can clone themselves using progesterone Date: June 15, 2010 Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Research News ...

Rick Hochberg, Ph.D. Professor. College College of Sciences. Department Biological Sciences. Phone 978-934-2885. Office Olsen Hall, Room 243. Email [email protected]. Expertise. ... and rotifers, ...

Rotifers are multicellular, microscopic marine animals that live in soils and freshwater environments. They are transparent and can be easily grown in large numbers. As such, they have been used in ...

Bdelloid rotifers are ancient, asexual, oddballs. The teeny-tiny freshwater animals have seemingly persisted without sex, and the evolutionary advantages it brings, for an estimated 25 million ...

It’s a microscopic worm called a rotifer that was brought back to life after spending about 25,000 years locked in the arctic permafrost. Its tale is told in the journal Current Biology.