- Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic, all-female aquatic animals that has avoided sex for over 50 million years, they survive by stealing useful genes from other organisms.Jan 30, 2026 07:21
- This is 🤯 incredible. Bdelloidea appropriate genes from other species, if I understand correctly? It goes beyond parthenogenesis. 🤔 Here I took Genetics, Biochem, etc. back in college (way back, in the Middle Ages) and I never learned of such! The closest thing might’ve been cell fusion.