Does sympatric speciation only apply to insects?
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Blackberry.
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Okay, I Googled it. I still don't know. I guess I'm not all that curious about it. WHAT THE HECK IS IT???
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No. Sympatric speciation has occurred in cave salamanders in Tennessee.
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also applies to david letterman, cannot think of any other way he could reproduce
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There has been a discovery related to electric fish: http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2006/06/02/sympatric_speciation_in_electr/ In sailfin silverside fish: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18616575?dopt=abstract In plants: Sympatric speciation 1. rare, results from reproductive isolation of two groups even though there are no geographic barriers to mating. 1. Mechanisms 1. Polyploidy: genetic mistake in cell division, results in multiplication of # of chromosomes, resulting in new individuals with 2x, 3x, 20x chromosome # of original. May be very common in plants. Crops resulting from polyploid descendants of wild ancestors: coffee, wheat, bananas, potatoes, strawberries ---- http://departments.oxy.edu/biology/bbraker/courses/bio105/class_notes/4_1.html
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No, Sympatric speciation applies to everything: birds, plants, algea, fungi, reptiles, birds, etc.
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