In multicellular eukaryotes with asexual reproduction, this process allows foreign genes to be transmitted directly to offspring by mitotic propagation of cells carrying these genes (Fig. 1).
Asexual reproduction is any reproductive process that does not involve meiosis or the union of nuclei, sex cells, or sex organs.
Interestingly, GO terms in biological processes that are related to fungal multiplication and pathogenicity, such as reproductive process, sexual and asexual reproduction, sporulation and cell adhesion, were significantly enriched in down-regulated genes in the resistant IR28, but not in the susceptible LYP9.
The snake's virgin birth, in more scientific terms, is a process of asexual reproduction called parthenogenesis, in which females produce babies without any genetic contribution from males.
In addition to the various modes of sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction is also a conspicuous process of fungal propagation.
There are currently no data about the underlying processes of asexual reproduction in L. orientalis, but the simplest assumption would be that they are similar to those in L. fabarum, considering that thelytoky is otherwise very rare in the Aphidiinae and that rare males are also observed in natural and laboratory populations of L. orientalis [ 14].
Within an Acropora colony, branch tips are the site of rapid growth, a process including both asexual reproduction of polyps and skeleton deposition, each regulated by a number of biological functions.
The success of asexual reproduction is dependent on both the strobilation process and the number of ephyrae released [42].
Asexual reproduction is, at least in some cases, the faster process, leading most rapidly to the development of large numbers of individuals.
In the Japanese termite Reticulitermes speratus, the founding queen bears her junior queens through a process called parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction that produces offspring with duplicates of half of mom's genes.
They are capable of both sexual (mixis) and asexual reproduction, where mixis is triggered by a quorum sensing process [ 9].
