«Exploitation of the same habitat, but key differences at important times of the year, suggests that competition between a single species works to preserve
the different phenotypes we observed - whilst simultaneously creating the potential for so - called sympatric speciation, i.e. the potential for a new species to form without geographic isolation,» says Hawley.
Not exact matches
Once a mutation is
observed and a gene is identified as being responsible, biologists will knock out that gene and introduce
different versions of it to see what
phenotypes they can induce.
(11) To test for possible developmental compensation for more subtle Wnt defects, they examined haploinsufficient crosses of CAST / EiJ mTERT + / — mice; none of the multiple defects
observed in mice with knockouts of multiple
different Wnt subtypes; again, no such
phenotypes were
observed.
In addition, it was
observed that in
different areas from the Brazilian Amazon region some of the Duffy
phenotypes showed significant correlation between blood donors and malaria patients [16].