单词 | parapatry |
释义 | parapatryn. Biology. The occurrence of parapatric populations or species; the state or condition of being parapatric; contiguity (of geographically distinct populations). ΚΠ 1955 H. M. Smith in Turtox News 33 76/1 It necessarily means also some sort of physiological differentiation under conditions of parapatry and sympatry. 1965 Systematic Zool. 14 57/1 I now propose that these two conditions of allopatry be distinguished by the terms parapatry (as originally proposed) and dichopatry, with the latter term defined as separation of geographic range to the extent that individuals of the involved species never met. 1973 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 4 71 Frequent cases of abutting allopatry (parapatry) of congeners seem to support this argument. 1998 Amer. Naturalist 152 129 Multiple mechanisms may cause reproductive isolation among groups such as drift and/or selection in allopatry..or parapatry. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1955 |
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