Citation: "Laboratory synthesis of an independently reproducing vertebrate species."

At least in sexually reproducing species, it is the set of all genes in the population of interbreeding individuals - the gene 'pool'.

Indeed, a sexually reproducing species can be thought of as a device that permutes a discrete set of mutually accustomed genes in different combinations.

Research has shown that almost every individual in a sexually reproducing species is genetically unique.

This is a consequence of the fact that gametes from sexually reproducing species are haploid.

"Standard sexual reproduction among sexually reproducing species," Cainen said.

As sexual contact is required in nearly all sexually reproducing species, transmission is not very host density dependent.

The blue-footed booby is not a seasonally reproducing species.

The blanket teemed with small, rapidly reproducing species, which supported food chains of larger predators.