For instance Mycocepurus smithii species of ant colonies. All members of an ant colony was confirmed females and males none.
Once learned, they survived because the queen ant has the ability to clone himself. The nature of DNA identical to the DNA of each ant queen.
"In the world of social insects, many types of reproduction. However, this species develops an unusual way," said Anna Himler, a biologist at the University of Arizona who reported the findings in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
She says, animal asexual reproduction to produce male sex on some kind of insects do occur. However, asexual reproduction that produces the female has never existed on the ants.
The researchers do not yet know why this change the way reproductive ants and since when do so. In fact, the ant colony living on a patch of mushrooms that also reproduce asexually.
Of the genetic code, the ants are thought to have lived in the "mushroom forest" since 80 million years ago. In fact, due to no longer having sex, each individual was impossible to do so because of reproductive organ called mussel has been degraded.
There are advantages and disadvantages do reproductive cloning. The level of breeding success from generation to generation can reach 100 percent. However, the genetic nature of a uniform, easily destroyed if the population becomes infected with a deadly disease.
Source: Kompas.com
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