Parapatric

Word PARAPATRIC
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Definitions and meanings of "Parapatric"

What do we mean by parapatric?

Occupying geographic areas that are partially overlapping or have a partial barrier between them. Used of organisms, especially populations of the same or closely related species. adjective

Occurring among populations having such a distribution. adjective

Whose ranges do not significantly overlap but are immediately adjacent to each other; they only occur together in the narrow contact zone, if at all. adjective

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The word "parapatric" in example sentences

In the case of parapatric speciation there is a graduation in gene distribution. ❋ Unknown (2009)

IN allopatric, peripatric, sympatric and parapatric speciation a founder population diverges into two or more species. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An intermediate mechanism is parapatric speciation, which takes place in contiguous, but otherwise geographically isolated allopatric populations. ❋ AYDIN (2006)

In parapatric speciation, the new species evolve in contiguous populations initially with slight genetic differences. ❋ AYDIN (2006)

He instead thinks that the current species distribution patterns were due to parapatric mechanisms in a continuous forest. ❋ AYDIN (2006)

The tension zone model suggests that a parapatric hybrid zone can persist indefinitely under some conditions without genetic differences being lost. ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, most of the hybridising parapatric species pairs have average divergences intermediate between intraspecific and interspecific distances for both cox1 and cob. ❋ Unknown (2009)

DNA barcoding, if used as a tool for species discovery, would thus fail to identify hybridising parapatric species pairs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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