parapatry

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parapatry

any nonoverlapping geographical contact between separate populations or species, without interbreeding.

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At a number of sites (e.g., Zuytdorp and Nanga Station), unprecedented levels of sympatry or parapatry were documented (as 'Eucyrtops'; Main et al.

Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): revealing a remarkable radiation of mygalomorph spiders from the Western Australian arid zone

How speciation can proceed in the face of gene flow between potentially interbreeding populations, including among parents and newly formed hybrid species (Andrew et al., 2012; Renaut et al., 2013), is especially revealing of the challenges associated with habitat specialization under parapatry. Gene flow can dilute the adaptive differences that selection generates between divergent populations; this may be especially problematic when one population is significantly larger than the other, as in the case of a newly divergent population found adjacent to an ancestral population, or in the presence of asymmetric gene flow (Ellstrand, 2014).

Lessons on Evolution from the Study of Edaphic Specialization

Parapatry and niche complementarity of Peruvian desert geckos (Phyllodactylus): the ambiguous role of competition.

Primer caso de canibalismo registrado para el gecko de Lima, Phyllodactylus sentosus (Reptilia, Phyllodactylidae)

This distributional pattern is commonly referred to as parapatry (Key, 1982; Bull, 1991).

Habitat characteristics within a zone of separation between the ranges of two species of pocket gophers

Variable progress toward ecological speciation in parapatry: stickle-back across eight lake-stream transitions.

Adaptation in a peripheral habitat: intraspecific variation in osmoregulatory traits in an estuarine hermit crab (Pagurus minutus)

Phylogeographic analyses of the 30[degrees]S south-east Pacific biogeographic transition zone establish the occurrence of a sharp genetic discontinuity in the kelp Lessonia nigrescens: Vicariance or parapatry? Mol.

Zonificacion del area marina costera protegida de multiples usos de la peninsula de mejillones, norte de Chile

Regional parapatry for the fish congeners Lythrurus snelsoni and L.

Abundance, distribution, and habitat of the threatened minnows Campostoma ornatum and Notropis chihuahua in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas

Accumulating post-zygotic isolation gene in parapatry: a new twist on chromosomal speciation.

First report on the karyological analysis of the Churru snow trout, Schizothorax esocinus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the River Jhelum, Kashmir

Chromosomal polymorphism, racial parapatry and introgression.

The evolution of South American populations of Trimerotropis pallidipennis (Oedipodinae: Acrididae) revisited: dispersion routes and origin of chromosomal inversion clines

Recently, Turner and Mallet (1996) suggested that mimicry rings in Heliconius did not originate via "biotic drift" in allopatry and in conjunction with Pleistocene climatic-vegetational fluctuations (as proposed by Brown et al., 1974), but rather by mutation and random drift in parapatry. Novel color patterns then spread to become predominant in local areas and later over wide areas by the migration of clines.

Hypotheses to explain the origin of species in Amazonia/Hipoteses para explicar a origem das especies na Amazonia

Parapatry and encounter competition between chipmunk (Tamias) species and the hypothesized role of parasitism.

Habitat partitioning by two sympatric species of chipmunk (Genus: Neotamias) in the Warner Mountains of California

Miller (1964: 256) believed that "Two species may exist in close proximity and their ranges may even interdigitate, but they maintain a relationship of contiguous allopatry and do not form mixed-species populations." Today, "contiguous allopatry," in which otherwise sympatric species are separated ecologically, is known as parapatry (e.g.