Diversity and metabolic potentials of microbial communities associated with pollinator and cheater fig wasps in fig-fig wasp mutualism system [PDF]
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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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 ...
Derek W Dunn, James M Cook, Douglas W Yu
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Multiple horizontal transfers of bacteriophage WO and host Wolbachia in fig wasps in a closed community [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Wolbachia-bacteriophage WO is a good model system for studying interactions between bacteria and viruses. Previous surveys of insect hosts have been conducted via sampling from open or semi-open communities; however, no studies have reported the ...
Ningxin eWang +5 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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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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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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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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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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Phenological adaptations in Ficus tikoua exhibit convergence with unrelated extra-tropical fig trees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Flowering phenology is central to the ecology and evolution of most flowering plants. In highly-specific nursery pollination systems, such as that involving fig trees (Ficus species) and fig wasps (Agaonidae), any mismatch in timing has serious ...
Ting-Ting Zhao +4 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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