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(CNN) — An ancient, interdependent relationship that contributes to food systems and ecosystem stability across the globe could be changing. Many flowering plants can self-pollinate, or transfer ...

There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that they can fertilize themselves without a partner. A biological advantage of self-pollination, also known as "selfing", ...

Hermaphroditic organisms can reproduce by means of three strategies: outcrossing, bi-parental inbreeding and selfing. Outcrossing involves cross-fertilization with a randomly selected mate and is ...

Plants and animals that can choose between sexual reproduction and self-fertilization produce longer-living offspring when they choose a mate, University of Oregon researchers find. Elizabeth ...

KINGSTON UPON HULL, England, March 24 (UPI) --Researchers at Hull University in England recently happened upon a female cichlid "selfing" -- having sex with herself. The fish, a hybrid of two cichlid ...