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The bacteria of a fig community [PDF]
Microbiology SpectrumUnderstanding the biotic drivers of diversity is a major goal of microbial ecology. One approach toward tackling this issue is to interrogate relatively simple communities that are easy to observe and perturb.
Gavin C. Woodruff +2 more
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Range Expansion of Obligate Antagonists but Not Mutualists in a Desert Fig (Ficus petiolaris) [PDF]
PlantsSpecies may respond to climate change by shifting habitats. For species that engage in obligate interactions, however, such range shifts are only possible if the interaction can occur in the extended range, either via dispersal of the original ...
Molly Gans, Judith L. Bronstein
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Previous genetic studies of pollinator wasps associated with a community of strangler figs (Ficus subgenus Urostigma, section Americana) in Central Panama suggest that the wasp species exhibit a range in host specificity across their host figs. To better
Aafke Oldenbeuving +8 more
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Larger fig wasps are more careful about which figs to enter--with good reason. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Floral longevity reflects a balance between gains in pollinator visitation and the costs of flower maintenance. Because rewards to pollinators change over time, older flowers may be less attractive, reducing the value of extended longevity. Un-pollinated
Cong Liu +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The ancient interaction between figs (Ficus, Moraceae) and their pollinating fig wasps is an unusual example of a mutualism between plants and gall-inducing insects.
Renee M. Borges
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Chaos of Wolbachia sequences inside the compact fig syconia of Ficus benjamina (Ficus: moraceae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Figs and fig wasps form a peculiar closed community in which the Ficus tree provides a compact syconium (inflorescence) habitat for the lives of a complex assemblage of Chalcidoid insects.
Chun-Yan Yang +7 more
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Deep mtDNA divergences indicate cryptic species in a fig-pollinating wasp
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2006 Background Figs and fig-pollinating wasps are obligate mutualists that have coevolved for ca 90 million years. They have radiated together, but do not show strict cospeciation.
Martin Joanne +2 more
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Molecular approaches to identify cryptic species and polymorphic species within a complex community of fig wasps. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Cryptic and polymorphic species can complicate traditional taxonomic research and both of these concerns are common in fig wasp communities. Species identification is very difficult, despite great effort and the ecological importance of fig wasps. Herein,
Jin-Hua Xiao +8 more
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Fighting injuries, fig exit, and dimorphism in two species of sycoryctine fig wasp (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae) [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2019 Similar to many vertebrate and invertebrate species, many fig wasp species are fighting other members of their species for mates. Fighting between the males of many non-pollinating fig wasp species involves injuries and fatalities.
Da-Mien Wong +3 more
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012 Background The interaction between insects and plants takes myriad forms in the generation of spectacular diversity. In this association a species host range is fundamental and often measured using an estimate of phylogenetic concordance between species.
McLeish Michael J, van Noort Simon
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