Not exact matches
Scientists use model organisms to study critical biological processes, but Egan said the study of nonmodel organisms is often the
key to
ecological questions, including those related to how the environment influences natural selection and speciation.
Key outstanding
questions regarding CRISPR - Cas biology include the
ecological roles of microbial adaptive immunity, the high rates of CRISPR - Cas horizontal transfer, and the coevolution of CRISPR - Cas and phage - encoded anti-CRISPR proteins.