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Vicious fig wasps in viscous populations
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2001Understanding when interacting individuals should conflict or cooperate is an enduring topic in evolutionary ecology. Cooperation can be favoured through kin selection when those interacting are genetic relatives. Because high levels of relatedness can be generated in ‘viscous’ populations, characterized by limited dispersal, it has often been assumed ...
I C.W., Hardy, J M., Cook
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Sequential ovipositing in fig wasps
2023This dataset is presented in Ms Excel.The data is about foundress counts that distinguishes between females that are alive, dead and moribund for 5 fig crops of four fig wasp species from Pretoria, South Africa.
Greeff, Jacobus +4 more
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Characterisation of the fig-fig wasp holobiont
BioSystemsPlants and animals have long been considered distinct kingdoms, yet here a 'plant-animal' is described. An extraordinary symbiosis in which neither organism can reproduce without the other, the fig tree (Ficus) provides the habitat for its exclusive pollinator: the fig wasp (Agaonidae).
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Mutualists with attitude: coevolving fig wasps and figs
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2003The intimate mutualism between fig wasps and figs has long captivated biologists, and new phylogenies are now uncovering its evolutionary history. Fig-pollinating wasps evolved just once, but fig parasitism has evolved repeatedly and convergently. Figs and their pollinators appear to have co-speciated considerably, but not invariably, because the ...
James M. Cook, Jean-Yves Rasplus
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How to be a fig wasp down under: The diversity and structure of an Australian fig wasp community
Acta Oecologica, 2014Endophytic insects and their parasitoids provide valuable models for community ecology. The wasp communities in inflorescences of fig trees have great potential for comparative studies, but we must first describe individual communities. Here, we add to the few detailed studies of such communities by describing the one associated with Ficus rubiginosa ...
Segar, Simon T. +3 more
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Biotropica, 1988
Predators inflict high mortality on the four species of wasps associated with the fig Ficus pertusa L. in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Because one of these wasps is the obligate pollinator of the fig, predation may have a strong impact on successful pollen donation by the plant.
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Predators inflict high mortality on the four species of wasps associated with the fig Ficus pertusa L. in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Because one of these wasps is the obligate pollinator of the fig, predation may have a strong impact on successful pollen donation by the plant.
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Sex Ratio Adjustment in Fig Wasps
Science, 1985The effects of inbreeding and local mate competition have often been confounded in theoretical and empirical studies of sex ratio. A general model considering the interplay of their influences on sex ratio evolution is presented, and its predictions are compared with data collected from three fig wasp species. The results indicate that female fig wasps
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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 +3 more
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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 +3 more
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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 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, 1969The 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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