isolating mechanism


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isolating mechanism

any mechanism preventing successful breeding between two populations.
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Pleistocene glacial advance and retreat has been proposed as an important isolating mechanism in speciation within Picoides in general in western North America (Jackson and others 2002).
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The ability of reputation to serve as a barrier to imitation and, hence, an isolating mechanism, suggests that it could be another determinant of IPO success.
A knowledge-based view of IPO success: superior knowledge, isolating mechanisms, and the creation of market value
Edison's lawsuits formed the basis for his competitive strategy and revealed regulatory legitimacy as his institutional isolating mechanism.
Co-evolution of entrepreneurial careers, institutional rules and competitive dynamics in American film, 1895-1920 (*)
Heterospecific pollen competition may be a common isolating mechanism between hybridizing taxa.
Effects of differential pollen-tube growth on hybridization in the Louisiana irises
The genetics of an isolating mechanism between two sibling species of Drosophila.
Postmating reproductive isolation between Chrysopa quadripunctata and Chrysopa slossonae: mechanisms and geographic variation
This step is not yet realized in Guadeloupe, but such a case, where more marked differences in cercarial shedding timing act as a true isolating mechanism, exists for two closely related species of schistosomes.
Asynchrony of infection timing, habitat preference, and sympatric speciation of Schistosome parasites
A reproductive isolating mechanism is a composite character of two species considered together, and, except in cases of reinforcement, not the direct product of natural selection.
Ernst Mayr and the origin of the species
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Rumelt calls such resource characteristics isolating mechanisms that prevent an imitation by competitors and defines them as 'phenomena that limit the ex post equilibration of rents among individual firms' (Rumelt 1984: 567).
Strategic competitive advantages and value net organisation: conceptual considerations and organisational recommendations for two- or multi-sided service markets
The instructor can ask them to analyze whether speciation has occurred in a particular story, and if so, what reproductive isolating mechanisms have evolved; to distinguish Lamarckian versus Darwinian thinking in an author's writing (for example, by analyzing Spiderman's acquisition of powers from a spider bite); to observe how natural selection has led to adaptation and how drift has caused random changes in a given population.
Teaching evolution with the aid of Science Fiction
A sampling of topics includes evaluating enterprise integration middleware technologies; improving architectural composability and consumability using communities; isolating mechanisms in COTS-based systems; and reconfiguring workflows of Web services.
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