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What does allopatric mean?

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Adjective
  1. (biology) Not living in the same territory; geographically isolated and thus unable to crossbreed.
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For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species?
Such barriers are some kind of geographic feature which isolates parts of populations, and leads to allopatric speciation.
As the allopatric populations continue evolving independently, RIMs develop and morphological differences may arise.
The two species have a largely allopatric altitudinal distribution on Hokkaido Island, Japan, proposed to be the result of temperature-mediated competition.
Relatively large genetic distances between populations suggest long periods of isolation and allopatric speciation.
Consequently, there is no need to invoke allopatric conditions to explain the patterns of variation seen in both the gall inducer and its inquiline beetle.

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