Researchers, Ayako Wada-Katsumata, Jules Silverman, and Coby Schal, found that some German cockroaches have developed an adaptive behavior of glucose aversion. Glucose, a simple sugar, is used to cover the poison in man-made traps for cockroaches. The German cockroach has gustatory receptor neurons (basically taste buds) in their mouths. The researchers focused on the sweet and bitter gustatory receptor neurons.

A recent article states that the asexual reproducing organism, Bdelloid rotifer have the ability to engage in horizontal gene transfers (as oppose to vertical gene transfers which arise from  human parents to their human offspring) with eubacteria, algae, protists, and fungi. It is thought that the main benefit of asexual reproduction is that the organism is surviving in a constant environment.