The mechanisms of reproductive isolation or hybridization barriers are a collection of mechanisms, behaviors and physiological processes that prevent the members of two different species that cross or mate from producing offspring, or which ensure that any offspring that may be produced are sterile. These barriers maintain the integrity of a speci...
When two populations are incapable of interbreeding due to physical, temporal, or biological barriers
(from the article `evolution`) Among sexual organisms, individuals that are able to interbreed belong to the same species. The biological properties of organisms that prevent ...
The situation where two populations are prevented or restricted from interbreeding by isolating mechanisms.
Two populations or individuals of opposite sex are considered reproductively isolated from one another if they cannot together produce fertile offspring. See prezygotic isolation and postzygotic isolation.
A mating incompatibility the occurs when some kind of behavioral, physiological, or genetic barrier prevents successful interbreeding among individuals from two different populations even where they occur together.
a condition in which interbreeding between populations is prevent by intrinsic factors of the species themselves.