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In evolutionary biology, sympatric speciation is the evolution of a new species from a surviving ancestral species while both continue to inhabit the same geographic region. In evolutionary biology and biogeography , sympatric and sympatry are terms referring to organisms whose ranges overlap so that they occur together at least in some places.
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. [1] An initially interbreeding population that splits into two or more distinct species sharing a common range exemplifies sympatric speciation .
Sympatric speciation is the formation of two or more descendant species from a single ancestral species all occupying the same geographic location. Often-cited examples of sympatric speciation are found in insects that become dependent on different host plants in the same area.
Allopatric speciation, in which two populations of the same species are geographically isolated from one another by an extrinsic barrier and evolve intrinsic (genetic) reproductive isolation. Peripatric speciation, in which a small group of a population is separated from the main body and experiences genetic drift.
allo-sympatric speciation A mode of speciation where divergence occurs in allopatry and is completed upon secondary contact of the populations–effectively a form of reinforcement. [6] [3] altruism anagenesis Evolutionary change that occurs within a species lineage as opposed to lineage splitting (cladogenesis). [7] analogous structures
A simplification of an allopatric speciation experiment where two lines of fruit flies are raised on maltose and starch media. Laboratory experiments of speciation have been conducted for all four modes of speciation: allopatric, peripatric, parapatric, and sympatric; and various other processes involving speciation: hybridization, reinforcement, founder effects, among others.
Sympatric speciation, from its beginnings with Darwin (who did not coin the term), has been a contentious issue. [41] [4]: 125 Mayr, along with many other evolutionary biologists, interpreted Darwins's view of speciation and the origin of biodiversity as arising by species entering new ecological niches—a form of sympatric speciation. [1]
For example, in 2008, two populations of the brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) in the Philippines, one adapted to feeding on rice, and another on Leersia hexandra grass, were reclassified from races into "two distinct, but very closely allied, sympatric species", based on poor survival rate when given the opposite food source, barriers to ...