Utah State University genetic ecologist Zach Gompert (IMAGE)

Utah State University

Utah State University genetic ecologist Zach Gompert

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Utah State University genetic ecologist Zachariah "Zach" Gompert is among a multi-institution team use genome-mapping to that a large, million base pair, adaptive deletion - a supermutation - converts a continuum of color variation seen in T. chumash into discrete color morphs in the other stick insect species.

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