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Sympatric speciation

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-006210

A mechanism for the evolution of new species whereby two populations of a species exhibiting the same or overlapping geographical distributions gradually evolve through genetic divergence into two different species.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-006210
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoBiological speciation; Sympatry; Allopatric speciation
TranslationsSpanish: especiación simpátrica
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006210",
  "term": "Sympatric speciation",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A mechanism for the evolution of new species whereby two populations of a species exhibiting the same or overlapping geographical distributions gradually evolve through genetic divergence into two different species.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "biological speciation",
    "sympatry",
    "allopatric speciation"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "especiación simpátrica"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/sympatric-speciation/"
}

Record 6,116 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.