Diversity and metabolic potentials of microbial communities associated with pollinator and cheater fig wasps in fig-fig wasp mutualism system [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Microbial symbionts can influence a myriad of insect behavioral and physiological traits. However, how microbial communities may shape or be shaped by insect interactions with plants and neighboring species remains underexplored.
Yiyi Dong +9 more
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Parasitism Features of a Fig Wasp of Genus Apocrypta (Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae) Associated with a Host Belonging to Ficus Subgenus Ficus [PDF]
Insects, 2023 Non-pollinating fig wasps (NPFWs), particularly long-ovipositored Sycoryctina wasps, exhibit a high species specificity and exert complex ecological effects on the obligate mutualism between the plant genus Ficus and pollinating fig wasps. Apocrypta is a
Po-An Chou +3 more
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Inferring the Phylogenetic Positions of Two Fig Wasp Subfamilies of Epichrysomallinae and Sycophaginae Using Transcriptomes and Mitochondrial Data [PDF]
Life, 2021 Fig wasps are a group of insects (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) that live in the compact syconia of fig trees (Moraceae: Ficus). Accurate classification and phylogenetic results are very important for studies of fig wasps, but the taxonomic statuses of some
Dan Zhao +6 more
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figsimR: An R Package for Simulating Fig–Wasp Community Dynamics [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionFig–fig wasp systems represent a widely applicable but underutilized framework for community assembly research, yet their multi‐trophic structure and species interactions substantially increase the complexity of community simulation.
Yiyi Dong, Simon T. Segar, Qingbei Weng
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Sexual selection on population-level mating opportunities drives morph ratios in a fig wasp with extreme male dimorphism [PDF]
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background Alternative mating tactics are widespread in animals and associated with extreme morphological polymorphism in some insects. Some fig wasps have both highly modified wingless males and dispersing winged males.
James M. Cook
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Seven Sycoryctine Fig Wasp Species (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) Associated with Dioecious Ficus hirta Inhabiting South China and Southeast Asia [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Even though non-pollinating fig wasps are essential components in tropical and subtropical habitats, yet they are poorly described in the Oriental communities.
Da-Mien Wong, Songle Fan, Hui Yu
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Maintenance of specificity in sympatric host-specific fig/wasp pollination mutualisms [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Fig/wasp pollination mutualisms are extreme examples of species-specific plant-insect symbioses, but incomplete specificity occurs, with potentially important evolutionary consequences. Why pollinators enter alternative hosts, and the fates of
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Interference Competition and High Temperatures Reduce the Virulence of Fig Wasps and Stabilize a Fig-Wasp Mutualism [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Fig trees are pollinated by fig wasps, which also oviposit in female flowers. The wasp larvae gall and eat developing seeds. Although fig trees benefit from allowing wasps to oviposit, because the wasp offspring disperse pollen, figs must prevent wasps ...
Derek W Dunn, James M Cook, Douglas W Yu
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A comparative venomic fingerprinting approach reveals that galling and non-galling fig wasp species have different venom profiles. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The galling habit represents a complex type of interaction between insects and plants, ranging from antagonism to mutualism. The obligate pollination mutualism between Ficus and fig wasps relies strongly on the induction of galls in Ficus flowers, where ...
Larissa G Elias +6 more
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Fig Macula as a Key Multifunctional Structure Mediating the Fig–Fig Wasp Mutualism [PDF]
PlantsPlant-insect mutualisms often drive the evolution of adaptive morphological and physiological traits, enabling ecological specialization and diversification.
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