A family of beetle mites may be the first animal lineage to have abandoned sexual reproduction and then reevolved it.
That’s the conclusion of a study of the mites’ evolutionary history as determined by DNA analysis, says Roy Norton of the State University of New York in Syracuse.
The Crotoniidae mites perpetuate their species through the usual joint efforts of males and females.
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