Yellow crazy ants break the rules of reproduction. Every male ant contains separate populations of cells from two distinct genetic lineages, making them “chimeras,” researchers report in the April 7 ...

Yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes) are, to put it simply, one of the more well known aggressive ‘jerks’ of the ant world. And that’s saying a lot for any of the countless number of invasive ...

Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It’s easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...