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Chapter 24, Problem 11TYK
Morphological and genetic comparisons group 30 species of snapping shrimp (genus Alpheus) into 15 pairs of closely related species. What is the best explanation for the fact that one member of each pair lives on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Panama, whereas the other member of each pair lives on the Pacific side?
- a. Different predator pressures in the Atlantic and Pacific selected for differences that resulted in the reproductive isolation of these species.
- b. The pairs of species arose by allopatric
speciation when the Isthmus of Panama separated their ancestral species. - c. The 30 species of snapping shrimp evolved by sympatric speciation before the Isthmus of Panama formed.
- d. These 15 pairs of species illustrate the pattern of punctuated equilibrium, in which most speciation events take place in a short period of time.
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