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Sympatry

In biology, two closely related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter each other. An initially interbreeding population that splits into two or more distinct species sharing a common range exemplifies sympatric speciation. Such speciation may be a product of reproductive…

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Sympatry

Nodes66
Edges65
Triples117
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.030303
Components1

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related to Bibliography · 61
Sympatry → Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants, Allen, Ants, Bibcode, Boomsma, Bot, Coyne, Dieckmann, Doebeli, Drosophila, Duration, Durban, Eggs, Evolution, February, Foote, Fund, Futuyma, Heredity, ISBN
related to Great spotted cuckoo and magpie: brood parasitism · 17
Sympatry → Cape, Clamator, For, Gaudix, Great, However, Hoya, In, Moller, Since, Soler, South Africa, Southern Europe, Spain, The, This, Thus
related to Evolving definitions and controversy · 13
Sympatry → As, Because, Conversely, Ernst Mayr, In, Karen McCoy, Michael, Others, The, This, Today, White, Yet
related to Orca: partial sympatry · 11
Sympatry → Antarctic, Atlantic, Furthermore, In, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Orcinus, Partial, Several, The, Thus
related to Syntopy · 10
Sympatry → Areas, As, France, In, It, Just, Myotis, North America, Sympatric, Syntopy
related to Species discrimination · 4
Sympatry → It, Sympatric, There, This
related to Examples · 1
Sympatry → Because

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species sympatric speciation populations two may isolation reproductive magpie doi contact cuckoo one 10 allopatric bibcode pmid discrimination genetic divergence

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Sympatryrelated to BibliographyBot0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyRehner0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyBoomsma0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyOctober0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyPartial Incompatibility0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyAnts0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographySymbiotic Fungi0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyTwo Sympatric Species0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyAcromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyEvolution0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyBibcode0.60section
Sympatryrelated to BibliographyJSTOR0.60section

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