allopatric

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Figure 5 shows that among both "allopatric" and "sympatric" taxa, pre-zygotic isolation increases with time, but among sympatic taxa, it increases faster!

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  1. adjective Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.

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  • Most scientists believe that allopatric speciation, where different species arise from an ancestral species only after breeding populations have become physically isolated from each other, is the dominant mode of speciation both on land and in the sea. —  Hack In The Box
  • The words aren't the easiest (do you know how to spell allopatric?), but you'll feel good about yourself if you get just one right. —  ENCYCLOPEDIA HANASIANA
  • DNA barcoding based on the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (cox1 or COI) has been successful in species identification across a wide array of taxa but in some cases failed to delimit the species boundaries of closely allied allopatric species or of hybridising sister species. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • The thing to remember about PE is that the overwhelmingly vast majority of speciation events are allopatric. —  Pharyngula
  • Heck, it wouldn't be too hard to argue that ALL speciation events are allopatric, I wouldn't think. —  Pharyngula
 

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  1. allo- + Greek patrā, fatherland (from patēr, patr-, father; see pəter- in Indo-European roots) + -ic.
 

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