Sentence examples for ecological isolation from inspiring English sources

These species are reproductively isolated by partial ecological isolation [ 21], sexual isolation and post mating barriers [ 22].

Our findings illustrate rare co-occurrence of D. parvula and D. retrocurva in the field with strong spatial segregation in ecologically differentiated lakes supporting ecological isolation.

This may point to genetic and/or ecological isolation of E. faecium hospital isolates and fits with the previously proposed hypothesis that novel, highly invasive, E. faecium strains may arise through horizontal gene transfer, but once they have adopted their new lifestyle, they become genetically isolated from other bacteria and become less prone to recombination (Willems et al. 2012).

In addition to the ecological isolation by the surrounding savannah, the mountain is isolated due to political events; the civil war that ravaged parts of Mozambique from 1977 to 1992 also helped preserve this area, untouched.

Bradburd, G. S. et al. Disentangling the effects of geographic and ecological isolation on genetic differentiation.

Mount Mabu fulfilled all these criteria and further, due to its ecological isolation, it looked quite promising.

We expect our study shed lights on how the polyploidization, geographic and ecological isolations contribute to the evolution and diversification of genus Panax.

Here, our phylogenetic analyses based on multiple chloroplast and nuclear genome markers demonstrated that the ancient and recent WGDs along with geographic and ecological isolations have together contributed to the diversification of Panax species.

Under this hypothesis, our findings suggested that multiple rounds of ancient and recent polyploidization, along with geographic and ecological isolations, might have together played important roles in the evolution and diversification of Panax.

Our findings based on the phylogenetic and population genetic analyses, coupled with the species distribution patterns of Panax, suggested that the two rounds of WGD along with the geographic and ecological isolations might have together contributed to the evolution and diversification of this genus.

Ecological prezygotic isolation could arise as a result of adaptation to contrasting habitats or temporal isolation [ 46].