Meaningless sex? Male mounting reduces sexual promiscuity of females
...but technologically simple technique--fitting some hens with a light plastic harness covering their cloaca...their paternity by reducing the promiscuity of the hens that they have inseminated; they do so by exploiting in these hens the response to the simple stimul...Mouse genome much more complex than expected
...ely important: even in such different organisms as hens and mice these ostensibly so unimportant RNAs are very similar. If they really had no function they would have mutated during the course of evolution so quickly that there would nowadays be hardly any similarity between them. The scientists came acro...It takes a village -- female ducks negotiate joint rearing of ducklings
...rship without making it so unattractive that other hens withdraw their participation. As hens arrive at the rearing-area with their ducklings, a period of intense socializing ensues. The hens th...