sympatric

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• This is because plant materials flourished or disappeared on the basis of their preadaptation—or lack thereof—to local conditions rather than because of on-site evolution or coevolution with sympatric species.

  Academic text (2013)

• Pack is also intrigued by the sympatric relationship that the spotted and bottlenose dolphins have, sharing the same territory yet coexisting and maintaining their distinct cultural and genetic identities without extreme violence.

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• Now recently there has been some recent evolutionary theory on whether or not sympatric speciation is possible.

• In recent decades, however, Guy Bush, along with others, gathered increasingly strong evidence for sympatric speciation in some insects and other groups.

  Academic text (2006)

• At least two theoretical results indicate that plant performance is not always higher in sympatric plant-fungus pairings.

  Academic text (2006)

• These researchers maintained that sympatric speciation was readily achieved in certain groups, such as insects that mated on the same plants on which they fed.

  Academic text (2006)

• We determined patterns of attachment to respiratory tract tissues of four sympatric marine mammal species for several influenza viruses.

  Academic text (2012)

• The island fox is endemic to six islands and the island skunk to two, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa, where the two carnivores are sympatric.

  Academic text (2009)

• An example of a global-scale study is that of Albach and colleagues (2006), who investigated eight closely related and sympatric species of the Veronica alpina plant complex from alpine habitats across Europe and North America.

  Academic text (2011)

• The sympatric species often share the same habitat, allowing them to interbreed without any geographic barriers.

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allopatric

• Specialized

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Living in different places so populations do not meet

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Etymology