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allopatric

adjective Referring or relating to allopatry.

allopatric

(of a population) being geographically separate (or nearly so) from another population of the same species. Compare SYMPATRIC.
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Classical models of allopatric and parapatric divergence do not involve population restrictions; however, low genetic variability is expected when population bottlenecks are integral to divergence, as in some models of peripatric divergence and most models of sympatric divergence.
Analysis of mechanisms of microevolutionary change in Cepphus guillemots using patterns of control region variation
A comparative structural cytogenetic study in three allopatric populations of Astyanax scabripinnis (Teleostei: Characidae).
Karyotypic diversity among three species of the genus Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae)/Diversidade cariotipica entre tres especies do genero Astyanax (Characiformes, Characidae)
Our results showed that eastern snapping turtles were predominantly trapped in locations where no alligator snapping turtles were encountered (20 allopatric eastern snapping turtles, 7 sympatric eastern snapping turtles).
Habitat use by the alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) and eastern snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) in Southeastern Missouri
fajardi has been found in allopatric populations, without a defined pattern of modification.
Analisis morfometrico de poblaciones de Chagasia fajardi (Diptera: Culicidae) del Brasil
In this study, we investigated the gametic compatibility between two allopatric populations of C.
Differential fertilization success between two populations of eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica
The coalescence theory establishes that the high values of Fst index may be explained if we assume a mutation process involving exclusively as evolutionary force occurring in allopatric populations separated by at least 4N generations (Avise 2000).
Morphometric and molecular differentiation between quetzal subspecies of Pharomachrus mocinno (Trogoniformes: Trogonidae)
In line with the popular theory of allopatric speciation, previous thinking had been that the confinement of T.
Longstanding theory of how species evolve in the oceans challenged
Here, we focus on molecular species diagnosis, inferences about the abundance and distribution of oyster species in the northern Ariake Sea, and gamete incompatibility between sympatric and allopatric populations of the Kumamoto and Pacific oysters, C.
The Kumamoto oyster Crassostrea sikamea is neither rare nor threatened by hybridization in the Northern Ariake sea, Japan
Most species are contiguously allopatric and actively partition common habitat areas (Heller 1971).
Habitat partitioning by two sympatric species of chipmunk (Genus: Neotamias) in the Warner Mountains of California
Theatops spinicaudus comprises two allopatric populations, an eastern one that extends from southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to east-central Alabama and eastern Tennessee, and a western one extending from central Iowa and northern Illinois to southern Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma (Shelley 2002:Fig.
Additional distributional records for scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda) from Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, with the first report of Theatops spinicaudus (Wood) (Cryptopidae) from Texas
pora is allopatric with respect to the known distribution of the bonariensis group, all component species of which are also allopatric with one another (Fig.
A new species of Bothriurus from Brazil (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae)
The three species are allopatric and occupy a small area of the cordillera in western Antioquia and adjacent Risaralda.
A new Colombian frog of the genus Eleutherodactylus from the northern Cordillera Occidental

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