Sentences with phrase «for sympatric»
Or they can evolve to mate in different places, for example on two different types of fruit, as in the example given above for sympatric speciation.
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The species of wheat that we in the West use for bread only developed in the last few thousand years as a result of two instances of sympatric speciation (different to selective breeding, but an agent of evolution none the less).
The species of wheat that we in the West use for bread only developed in the last few thousand years as a result of two episodes of sympatric speciation (different to selective breeding, but an agent of evolution none the less) and the various Shiraz, Char.donnay and Pinot Noir gra.pes we enjoy today, in the form of wine, were all developed and perfected in the last 100 years or so.
The East African cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi are ideal for investigating behavioral adaptation to environment, as within genera, fine - scale niche partitioning has resulted in sympatric sister species that live in definable microhabitats with distinct selection pressures.
A recent study found that genetic differentiation was much lower throughout a large fraction of the genome between the now sympatric species pair Helianthus annuus and H. petiolaris, which have diverged for ∼ 1.0 million years, than between more closely related species with non-overlapping geographical ranges [34], [35].
«Exploitation of the same habitat, but key differences at important times of the year, suggests that competition between a single species works to preserve the different phenotypes we observed - whilst simultaneously creating the potential for so - called sympatric speciation, i.e. the potential for a new species to form without geographic isolation,» says Hawley.
Most harbour porpoises found dead on the north - east coast of Scotland show signs of attack by sympatric bottlenose dolphins, but the reason (s) for these violent interactions remain (s) unclear.