Who needs sex when you can steal DNA?

Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 15:42 in Biology & Nature

Tiny freshwater organisms that have amazed scientists because of their sex-free lifestyle may have survived so well because they steal genes from other creatures, scientists reported on Thursday.

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