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by hatthew 213 days ago
my point is that the ratios are variable, and thus 100:1 four-leaf:five-leaf is plausible
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It's hard to see it being off by multiple orders of magnitude.
The link suggests that we expect to see 100:1 four-leaf to six-leaf ratio, but in that one patch I found about a 4:1 ratio. I think it is very plausible that different lineages and/or different environmental conditions could cause wildly varying numbers.