No Sex for 80 Million Years
The Bdelloid rotifer needeth not the males.
I sat down with Della, representative of the microscopic zooplankton Bdelloid Rotifers, for the popular magazine Cosmopolitan over the weekend.
Cosmo asks: how does a #girlboss from over 450 species of all-female rotifers, who’s been asexual for 80 million years, possibly get it all done after a severe drought that would kill a tardigrade?! WHILE STAYING SO THIN?!
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