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How does mechanical isolation prevent reproduction?
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Mechanical isolation. Copulation is often impossible between different animal species because of the incompatible shape and size of the genitalia. In plants, variations in flower structure may impede pollination. Two species of sage from California provide an example: The two-lipped flower s of Salvia mellifera have stamens and style ...
New species form by speciation, in which an ancestral population splits into two or more genetically distinct descendant populations. Speciation involves reproductive isolation of groups within the original population and accumulation of genetic differences between the two groups.
- Hybridization is known to happen between what are generally accepted to be different species — sometimes this leads to new species, other times som...
- Dogs are currently undergoing speciation. However, because they have only recently have split into many breeds, it will take much more time for the...
- They are constantly influenced by variable factors of their environment which may cause more changes in their karyotype. Moreover, most plant speci...
- No, because the offspring is able to reproduce which means that the two parents are of the same species. Plus, just because organisms live in diffe...
- There may not be a barrier — I did a brief look online, but didn't find anything relevant and don't know whether anyone has tried making hybrids of...
- Organisms belong to the same species if they can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. Species are separated by prezygotic and postzygotic barri...
- All domestic dogs evolved from the grey wolf species. Australian dogs were brought to Australia by humans. African dogs were brought to Africa by h...
- Speciation in plants may happen faster just like genetical engineering is much easier to conduct in plants. Plants are polyploid but can reproduce...
- Allopatric? But they eventually can swim apart and change depths?
- The biggest factor is with the rate of creating offspring. The shorter the time between generations the faster that speciation can occur.
Once reproductive isolation occurs, what was one species has become two. A number of different mechanisms ranging from the behavioral to the structural and the molecular are involved in generating reproductive isolation.
- The (a) African fish eagle is similar in appearance to the (b) bald eagle, but the two birds are members of different species. (credit a: modification of work by Nigel Wedge; credit b: modification of work by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
- Males of the western meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta (left) and the eastern meadowlark Sturnella magna (right). Images from Wikimedia Commons.
- Range map for Ensatina species on the western coast of North America. Gradations in color (ex: E. oregonensis and E. picta) denote interbreeding between the two species, while solid lines (ex: E. klauberi and E. escholtzii) denote reproductive isolation.
- A phylogenetic tree of the order Rodentia (rodents), representing the lineage species concept’s focus on species being identified as unique branches on a phylogenetic tree.
If the trait results in lack of the ability to form an embryo, such as gametic isolation or temporal isolation, they are referred to a prezygotic mechanism. If the result is an infertile or inviable offspring then it is a post-zygotic isolation.
Habitat isolation, behavioral isolation, temporal isolation, mechanical isolation and gametic isolation are all examples of prezygotic isolating mechanisms. Some species of fruit flies in the genus Rhagoletis provide an example of habitat and behavioral isolating mechanisms.
Mechanical Isolation: Pollination. Example 2: The Bucket Orchid and the Orchid Bee. Male Orchid Bees obtain a wax from the orchid x that they use to make a substance to attract female bees. The anatomy of the Bucket Orchid allows pollination x only by this species of bee. This partnership is so precise that if either species
