Sentences with phrase «called ecotypes»

For instance, one theory predicts that bacterial populations are genetically diverse because they adapt to their surrounding conditions on a very small - scale, local level, leading to the establishment of distinct subpopulations, called ecotypes.

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One variety, or ecotype, feeds on the thin, needle - like leaves of a shrub called Adenastoma and features a distinct white stripe on its back that serves as camouflage.

«Their vocalization, their flight call, is how we can categorize the crossbill ecotypes in the absence if information on their bill sizes.»