Alice
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me: man what a wonderful day where nothing weird is happening
biology: btw ants are doing "prokaryotes evolving into eukaryotes" type fuckery on a macroorganismic scale :)
biology: btw ants are doing "prokaryotes evolving into eukaryotes" type fuckery on a macroorganismic scale :)
It's never occurred to me that it IS an assumption. This is the most astonishing start to a paper I've read in years:
"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species."
"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species."
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
me: man what a wonderful day where nothing weird is happening
biology: btw ants are doing "prokaryotes evolving into eukaryotes" type fuckery on a macroorganismic scale :)
biology: btw ants are doing "prokaryotes evolving into eukaryotes" type fuckery on a macroorganismic scale :)