Sexual Development: Reproduction in Children's Books

Ethical issues in assisted reproduction techniques for patients with disorders of sexual development

Sexual reproduction in octocorals

For octocorals, sexual reproductive processes are fundamental to maintaining populations and influencing macroevolutionary processes. While ecological data on octocorals have lagged behind their scleractinian counterparts, the proliferation of reproductive studies in recent years now enables comparisons between these important anthozoan taxa. Here we review the systematic and biogeographic patt...

Sexual reproduction in Aspergillus flavus.

Aspergillus flavus is the major producer of carcinogenic aflatoxins in crops worldwide and is also an important opportunistic human pathogen in aspergillosis. The sexual state of this heterothallic fungus is described from crosses between strains of the opposite mating type. Sexual reproduction occurred between sexually compatible strains belonging to different vegetative compatibility groups. ...

New Insights into Placozoan Sexual Reproduction and Development

Unraveling animal life cycles and embryonic development is basic to understanding animal biology and often sheds light on phylogenetic relationships. A key group for understanding the evolution of the Metazoa is the early branching phylum Placozoa, which has attracted rapidly increasing attention. Despite over a hundred years of placozoan research the life cycle of this enigmatic phylum remains...

Effects of Sexual Reproduction

Example 5.5: Near-critical binary splitting. The theorem applies to binary splitting where the probability of division is p(z) = 1/2+1/(2z), and q(z) = 1− p(z) is the probability of no children, if population size is z. Thus, m(z) = 1 + 1/z and the process is supercritical, but approaches criticality as z increases. The probability generating function of the offspring number is fz(s) = q(z) + p...