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Sunherp
at Fri Feb 26 10:41:50 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Sunherp ]
You bring up some thought-provoking ideas, Jeff. Nice work! Again, this is the type of post I was looking for.
First, I agree - as habitat changes, so do the animals. That’s a given. However, if we avoid selective breeding for certain characteristics (red head caps without markings, for example), we essentially keep a “snap-shot” of what the animals were like at that locality at the time of collection. Regardless, if the lines are kept “pure”, we maintain the genetic integrity (here, the set of genes present in the wild population) of given local populations. Would you disagree?
-Cole
L. t. multistrata - Cherry Co., NE (Photo credit: Dell Despain)
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