sympatric

How To Use sympatric In A Sentence

• These two sympatric species are reproductively isolated and represent highly divergent lineages in the genus.
• Other species also may refrain from calling, especially if they live in noisy environments, are likely to attract predators, or lack sympatric congeners with which they might hybridize.
• Tissue-level concentrations of hydrophilic and lipophilic extracts caused high levels of mortality in a sympatric pennate diatom.
• One of the chief roles of calls among songbirds is to find mates, and that takes me back to the topic of sympatric speciation.
• We assigned geographic areas using the distributions of allopatric and sympatric species as a guide: North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Greater Antilles.
• Symbols overlap where sampled populations are sympatric or geographically proximate.
• They conclude that sympatric speciation is possible, but only when there is some kind of environmental heterogeneity that is sufficient to interfere with gene flow.
• Our studies have demonstrated it is possible to simultaneously disrupt pheromone communication and mating in sympatric tortricid moths by releasing an incomplete mixture of their individual pheromone components.
• For instance, positive correlations between size and dominance were evident among juvenile Atlantic salmon and brown trout when the two species were in allopatry but not when they were living sympatrically.
• In general, sizes of island individuals are approximately intermediate in size between those in the region of origin (where they are sympatric and small) and those in the region of allopatry.