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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.
Yan-Qiong Peng +2 more
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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 ...
Rui-Wu Wang +8 more
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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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Current Biology, 2005 What are figs and fig wasps? Figs are plants in the genus Ficus, which have a unique closed inflorescence called a syconium, typically containing hundreds of flowers. We eat the ripe syconia of one species, F. carica, and call these ‘pseudofruits’ figs too.
Cook, James M. (R17013), West, Stuart A.
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Composition and structure of the fig wasp community in Amazonia [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2015 An understanding of the complex ecological interaction between fig wasps and their host plants in Amazonia requires previous knowledge of their distribution and diversity.
Raquel Ribeiro de Souza CASTRO +4 more
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Analysis of Ficus hirta Fig Endosymbionts Diversity and Species Composition
Diversity, 2021 Endosymbionts living in plants and insects are pervasive. Ficus (Moraceae) has very special inflorescences (which we also call figs) enclosed like an urn, and such inflorescence is usually parasitized by fig wasps.
Yifeng Liu, Songle Fan, Hui Yu
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The genetic structuring in pollinating wasps of Ficus hispida in continental Asia
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The interaction between figs and fig wasps provides a striking example of obligate brood site pollination mutualism. Monoecious figs, constituting independent radiations in each tropical biome, are present in significant proportions worldwide, but in ...
Xiaoxia Deng +3 more
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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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, 2022 Abstract This chapter provides information on the obligate mutualism between figs (Ficus carica) and its pollinator, the fig wasp (Blastophaga psenes). Some notes on the pollination biology of wild and cultivated figs are presented and details on some other fig pollinators are highlighted.
Kjellberg, F. +2 more
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The unknown followers: Discovery of a new species of Sycobia Walker (Hymenoptera: Epichrysomallinae) associated with Ficus benjamina L. (Moraceae) in the Neotropical region [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2018 Biotic invasion in mutualistic communities is of particular interest due to the possible establishment of new relationships with native species. Ficus species are widely cultivated as ornamental plants, and they host specific communities of chalcid wasps
Fernando Henrique Antoniolli Farache +9 more
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