skn-1-deficient embryos make extra hypodermal (skin) & body wall tissue.

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Five Hypotheses Explain How Species Richness Affects Community Services Diversity-stability hypothesis, more species are present, the more stable the community.

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Elton’s hypothesis suggests there is a linear correlation between species richness and community services

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Paul and Ann Ehrlich (1981) proposed an alternative called the rivet hypothesis Some species play a small but critical role in keeping the plane, the community, airborne, while other species do not

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 Brian Walker (1992) proposed the Redundancy hypothesis Species that play the same roles in a community can compensate for each other if some are lost under particular conditions

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Keystone hypothesis

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Idiosyncratic hypothesis Community services change as the number of species increases or decreases, but that the direction of change is not predictable