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Published online 27 March 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060327-1
Corrected online: 5 April 2006

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Virginal shrimp not so chaste after all?

Microscopic creatures may have been having secret sex for millions of years.

Imagine going more than 200 million years without sex. That's what zoologists thought had happened to a microscopic shrimp-like animal called Vestalenula.

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