intraspecific
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Her example illustrates "intraspecific variation," which the study found to be pervasive across all North America's mammals.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
Loss of wild species would result in an increase of intraspecific diversity within the different crop varieties, but decrease in interspecific crop diversity.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Modern rhino horns are used in intraspecific combat and in fighting predators, but also in foraging and especially in breaking branches.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2013
Nevertheless, HI genes may have properties that are not easily modeled from intraspecific genetics and thus need to be directly tested in hybrid backgrounds.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 15, 2011
If so, the intraspecific variation in the morphology of P4 could be expected to be somewhat greater than that of the upper molars, for example.
From Records of the Fossil Mammal Sinclairella, Family Apatemyidae, From the Chadronian and Orellan by William Alvin Clemens
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