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Figs and fig wasps: evolution in a microcosm.
Biologist (London, England), 2001Fig wasps are tiny insects that both pollinate and feed upon fig plants. Each species requires the other in order to complete its reproductive cycle. The interaction centres on the unique structure of syconium (fig inflorescence), which provides an intriguing and convenient microcosm for studying the action of both natural and sexual selection.
J M, Cook, C, Lopez-Vaamonde
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Weapons and fighting in fig wasps
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1987trypesis caricae, a species in the same genus as the wasp studied by Murray; the numerals 8 and 9 show the elongated eighth and ninth abdominal segments, followed posteriorly by the long sheaths that hold the ovipositor, which is used to drill through the outside wall of the fig into the ovaries of the pistillate florets inside.
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Investigations into stability in the fig/ fig-wasp mutualism
2010Fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae) are involved in an obligate mutualism where each partner relies on the other in order to reproduce: the pollinating fig wasps are a fig tree’s only pollen disperser whilst the fig trees provide the wasps with places in which to lay their eggs. Mutualistic interactions are,
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Diet segregation of fig wasps and the stability of fig-fig wasp mutualism
Biodiversity Science, 2008Sun Baofa, Wang Ruiwu, Hu Zhong
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