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Fig wasps (Hymenoptera)

1982
Fig wasps cannot exist by themselves. They live in a close and obligate symbiosis with the figs (Ficus) in the sycones of which they breed, each species of wasp with its own species of fig. The figs are totally dependent on these wasps of the hymenopterous family Agaonidae, which are the sole agents for the pollination of the flowers hidden in their ...
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Fig Wasps: Mechanism of Pollen Transfer

Science, 1969
The fig ( Ficus ) is absolutely dependent upon pollination by minute agaonid wasps for development of fertile seeds. In some species of the wasp genera Agaon , Allotriozoon , Blastophaga , Ceratosolen ...
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Molecular phylogenies of fig pollinating and non‐pollinating wasps and the implications for the origin and evolution of the fig‐fig wasp mutualism

Journal of Biogeography, 1996
Abstract. Figs host three ecologically distinct groups of wasps: pollinators, non‐pollinators (parasitic wasps) and parasitoids. Both pollinators and non‐pollinators complete their life cycles using fig tissue, while parasitoids appear to attack some groups of non‐pollinators.
Carlos A. Machado, Edward Allen Herre, Shawn McCafferty, Eldredge Bermingham   +3 more
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Molecular phylogeny of fig wasps Agaonidae are not monophyletic

Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie, 1998
According to the present classification, the family Agaonidae contains all fig pollinators as well as five subfamilies of non-pollinating fig wasps. The molecular phylogeny of the family was reconstructed using partial sequences of the 28S rRNA (D1 and D2 domains). Our results show that the family Agaonidae is not monophyletic.
Rasplus, Jean Yves, Kerdelhue, Carole, Le Clainche, Isabelle, Mondor, Gaël   +3 more
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Figs and fig wasps: evolution in a microcosm.

Biologist (London, England), 2001
Fig wasps are tiny insects that both pollinate and feed upon fig plants. Each species requires the other in order to complete its reproductive cycle. The interaction centres on the unique structure of syconium (fig inflorescence), which provides an intriguing and convenient microcosm for studying the action of both natural and sexual selection.
J M, Cook, C, Lopez-Vaamonde
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Weapons and fighting in fig wasps

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1987
trypesis caricae, a species in the same genus as the wasp studied by Murray; the numerals 8 and 9 show the elongated eighth and ninth abdominal segments, followed posteriorly by the long sheaths that hold the ovipositor, which is used to drill through the outside wall of the fig into the ovaries of the pistillate florets inside.
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Investigations into stability in the fig/ fig-wasp mutualism

2010
Fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae) are involved in an obligate mutualism where each partner relies on the other in order to reproduce: the pollinating fig wasps are a fig tree’s only pollen disperser whilst the fig trees provide the wasps with places in which to lay their eggs. Mutualistic interactions are,
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Fighting in fig wasps

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1988
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Diet segregation of fig wasps and the stability of fig-fig wasp mutualism

Biodiversity Science, 2008
Sun Baofa, Wang Ruiwu, Hu Zhong
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FIG, WASP

2023
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