page_title: Ecotype
hierarchical_section_title: Ecotype
caption_attribution_description: English: Four different ecotypes of Physcomitrella patens stored at the IMSC. (Scale bars: 1mm)
context_page_description: In evolutionary ecology, an ecotype, sometimes called ecospecies, describes a genetically distinct geographic variety, population or race within a species, which is genotypically adapted to specific environmental conditions.
  Typically, though ecotypes exhibit phenotypic differences stemming from environmental heterogeneity, they are capable of interbreeding with other geographically adjacent ecotypes without loss of fertility or vigor.
context_section_description: In evolutionary ecology, an ecotype, sometimes called ecospecies, describes a genetically distinct geographic variety, population or race within a species, which is genotypically adapted to specific environmental conditions.
  Typically, though ecotypes exhibit phenotypic differences (such as in morphology or physiology) stemming from environmental heterogeneity, they are capable of interbreeding with other geographically adjacent ecotypes without loss of fertility or vigor.
caption: Four different ecotypes of Physcomitrella patens, stored at the International Moss Stock Center
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