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ring species: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary biology

a chain of interbreeding populations encircling a barrier whose terminal populations meet but no longer interbreed.

In evolutionary biology, ring species refers to a chain of interbreeding populations encircling a barrier whose terminal populations meet but no longer interbreed. This meaning comes from Irwin (2001) in Nature.[1]

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barrier4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs chain3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs ring3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Irwin, D. E., Bensch, S., & Price, T. D. (2001). Speciation in a ring. Nature, 409(6818), 333-337. https://doi.org/10.1038/35053059

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