Worms sex life yields advantage over parasites
Out in the field, biologists have noted that organisms are more likely to reproduce sexually when there are more parasites loping around in their vicinity. What has been missing is a direct manipulation to organisms’ sex lives to test if it makes them more or less resistant to parasites. Direct evidence Now researchers working at the University of Indiana in the US have used the round worm Caenorhabditis elegans to… Leer más »Worms sex life yields advantage over parasites