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A plant that reproduces sexually but has clone-like offspring

Published: 09/23/2026, 12:00 AM

This is a summary of: Zhang, M. et al. Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11057-7 (2026). Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ‘Expert opinion’ and the figure are published under a CC BY 4.0 licence. Cabral, G., Marques, A., Schubert, V., Pedrosa-Harand, A. & Schlögelhofer, P. Nature Commun. 5, 5070 (2014). Article PubMed Google Scholar Read the paper: Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis How an all-female fish species defies evolutionary expectations Deciphering how dog roses with an odd chromosome copy number sexually reproduce