Question

You collect individuals from different allopatric populations of a leaf-eating beetle. In the laboratory, you conduct mate-choice experiments to assess levels of reproductive isolation among beetles from different populations. Assuming that ecological speciation occurred in the wild, which pattern should you expect?.

Answer 1

Less reproductive isolation among populations that share similar habitats.

What is habitat reproductive isolation?

• Habitat isolation is the term for when populations of a species move to a new habitat and settle in an area where they no longer overlap with other populations of the same species.
• When reproduction with the parent species stops, a new group emerges that is genetically and reproductively independent.

What factors affect reproductive isolation?

• The members of different species will be reproductively isolated by any factor that prevents potentially viable individuals from coming together.
• Different habitats, physical barriers, and a variation in the timing of sexual development or flowering are examples of the different types of barriers that can result in isolation.

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