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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.
Yiyi Dong +9 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 Borges, Borges Renee M
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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.
Simon Segar, James Cook
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Ionotropic Receptor Genes in Fig Wasps: Evolutionary Insights from Comparative Studies
InsectsThe mechanisms of chemoreception in fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae) are of primary importance in their co-evolutionary relationship with the fig trees they pollinate.
Hui Yu, Weicheng Huang, Seping Dai
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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
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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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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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, 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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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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