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New Species Assemblages Disrupt Obligatory Mutualisms Between Figs and Their Pollinators
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The reliance of each fig species on its specific pollinator wasp, and vice versa, is the archetype of both obligatory mutualism and coevolution. Pollinator sharing between host fig species is only known to occur among closely related sympatric species ...
Jared Bernard +8 more
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Ant Fauna of Fig Orchards of the Estahban Area with the Report of Tapinoma Karavaievi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as a Predator of Fig Pollinator Wasps [PDF]
تاکسونومی و بیوسیستماتیک, 2021 The fig fruit (Ficus carica L.), as an important agricultural product, is consumed fresh or dried worldwide. Fars and the Estahban county, with more than 95% of fig orchards, are the most important edible fig-producing areas in Iran.
Haniyeh Kiyani +2 more
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Ecological Entomology, 2010 1. There are over 700 species of fig trees in the tropics and several thousand species of fig wasps are associated with their syconia (inflorescences). These wasps comprise a monophyletic family of fig pollinators and several diverse lineages of non‐pollinating wasps.
Cook, James M., Segar, Simon T.
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Stability in fig tree–fig wasp mutualisms: how to be a cooperative fig wasp [PDF]
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2020 Abstract Fig tree–fig wasp mutualisms are diverse and underpin much biodiversity. The wasps (Agaonidae) are the sole pollinators of the trees (Ficus). Figs are enclosed inflorescences, each of which contains many small flowers. Female wasps (foundresses) enter receptive figs to spread pollen and to lay their eggs individually into fig ...
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Communications Biology, 2022 Phylogenetic and population genetic analyses reveal mechanisms of pollinator sharing, copollination and speciation by host-shift in fig-wasp mutualism.
Zhi-Hui Su +6 more
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Genome-Wide Identification and Analysis of Lipases in Fig Wasps (Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera)
Insects, 2022 Lipases are the main enzymes involved in lipid metabolism. However, the characteristics of lipases in insects were scarcely investigated. Here, we screened the recently sequenced genomes of 12 fig wasp species consisting of seven pollinator fig wasps ...
Xianqin Wei +4 more
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More examples of breakdown the 1:1 partner specificity between figs and fig wasps
Botanical Studies, 2021 Background The obligate mutualism between fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) and pollinating fig wasps (Agaonidae) is a model system for studying co-evolution due to its perceived extreme specificity, but recent studies have reported a number of examples of ...
Hui Yu +4 more
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Biomechanics of substrate boring by fig wasps [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014 Female insects of diverse orders bore into substrates to deposit their eggs. Such insects must overcome several biomechanical challenges to successfully oviposit, which include the selection of suitable substrates through which the ovipositor can penetrate without itself fracturing.
Lakshminath, Kundanati, Namrata, Gundiah
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The fellowship of the fig continues its journey: Fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) associated with Ficus microcarpa in Greece [PDF]
NeoBiotaThe number of alien species continues to climb uninterrupted with a proportion of them becoming invasive, impacting native biodiversity and socioeconomic parameters.
Evangelos Koutsoukos +6 more
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Conformable Ferrimagnetic Tattoo Electrodes for Plant Electrophysiology
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.The newly developed ferrimagnetic tattoo electrode is capable of measuring plant electrophysiological activity outside the Faraday cage. Its ability to adhere without damaging the plant tissue allows long‐term recordings. This premise opens new avenues for in‐field monitoring of plant health through electrophysiology.
Arianna Melis +7 more
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