sympatric

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From conclusions 2 and 3 it is argued that speciation in these algae is probably 'quasi-sympatric'; that is, sister species diverge and become reproductively isolated within a single geographic region.

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  1. adjective Ecology Occupying the same or overlapping geographic areas without interbreeding. Used of populations of closely related species.

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  • People go bananas over the old man of the forest today, but in past times, orang utans found favour with sympatric humans by providing easy targets for spears. megafauna that have long vanished from Asian rainforests include giant tapirs and giant pangolins. —  The annotated budak
  • From conclusions 2 and 3 it is argued that speciation in these algae is probably 'quasi-sympatric'; that is, sister species diverge and become reproductively isolated within a single geographic region. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Largely sympatric, these taxa have mostly different caterpillar food plants, mostly distinctive caterpillars, and somewhat different ecosystem preferences but only subtly differing adults with no genitalic divergence. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Two putative sympatric populations that range throughout this region were compared. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The sympatric examples are never quite as good as I think they should be. —  Pharyngula
 

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

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  1. sympatr(y) + -ic
 

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/sɪmˈpætrɪk/
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