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This form of speciation occurs when the geographical isolation of a sub-population is followed by the development of mechanisms for reproductive isolation.
With respect to dispersal, Hubbell's neutral model predicts species abundances to follow a log series distribution when immigration is unlimited if point mutation is the dominant form of speciation [28]; all RT samples from this study follow this model of species abundance when singletons are eliminated (p>0.05).
In fact, recent studies of speciation suggest that this form of speciation is quite common in plants (Rieseberg 2001; Badaeva et al. 2007; Rieseberg and Willis 2007).
Duesberg et al have recently described their theory that cancer is just another form of speciation, the evolution of a new species, or xenogenesis.
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This is particularly important when exploring the dynamics of speciation, and the impact different forms of speciation have on the inference of species trees and demographics.
These forms of speciation could be responsible for the origin of most species, while new genera or higher taxa (i.e. monophyletic lineages with characteristic prominent evolutionary novelties) mostly result from peripatric speciation.
An important form of quantum speciation, polyploidy, is discussed separately below.
This form of allopatric speciation is particularly apparent when colonizers reach geographically remote areas, such as islands, where they find few or no competitors and have an opportunity to diverge as they become adapted to the new environment.
One possibility would be a form of sympatric speciation, whereby lice that live in different microhabitats on a host preferentially mate with other lice in those habitats.
In this form of allopatric speciation, a small population splits from a large one via an invasion of a small number of individuals into an isolated locality beyond the geographic range of the mother species (Fig. 2).
Hence, we interpret this variation as some form of incipient speciation between animals assigned to Clades B and C. Ramasindrazana et al. [ 44] have recently analyzed echolocation calls of animals referred to as H. commersoni captured in western Madagascar.
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