Neoblasts respond to injury through position-specific signaling from surrounding tissues and generate new tissues during maintenance, asexual reproduction, and regeneration. In the study ...

Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and differentiation of stem cells in the adult organism.

They analyzed tissue samples taken from hydra undergoing both head regeneration and budding, a form of asexual reproduction where a hydra grows a polyp that is essentially a duplicate of itself.

(Mutations do create a minor amount of change.) If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor it, even in competition for a niche with sexually reproducing species.

The team also observed a lack of new culms growing from the root systems of those that had flowered, also showing limited asexual ... inefficient reproduction. However, this regeneration process ...

Those outlier liaisons gave whiptails robust heterozygosity, which has been preserved by the identical replication—essentially, cloning—that occurs in asexual reproduction. It’s a genetic ...