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Expression and evolutionary divergence of the non-conventional olfactory receptor in four species of fig wasp associated with one species of fig

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009
Background The interactions of fig wasps and their host figs provide a model for investigating co-evolution. Fig wasps have specialized morphological characters and lifestyles thought to be adaptations to living in the fig's syconium.
Xiao Jinhua, Wang Nina, Lu Bin, Xu Yongyu, Murphy Robert W, Huang Dawei   +5 more
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Deep mtDNA divergences indicate cryptic species in a fig-pollinating wasp

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2006
Background Figs and fig-pollinating wasps are obligate mutualists that have coevolved for ca 90 million years. They have radiated together, but do not show strict cospeciation.
Martin Joanne, Haine Eleanor R, Cook James M   +2 more
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The genetic structuring in pollinating wasps of Ficus hispida in continental Asia

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The interaction between figs and fig wasps provides a striking example of obligate brood site pollination mutualism. Monoecious figs, constituting independent radiations in each tropical biome, are present in significant proportions worldwide, but in ...
Xiaoxia Deng, Yaolin Liao, Da‐Mien Wong, Hui Yu   +3 more
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Association of Fig Pollinating Wasps and Fig Nematodes inside Male and Female Figs of a Dioecious Fig Tree in Sumatra, Indonesia

Insects, 2022
Nematodes can grow within the inflorescences of many fig trees (Ficus spp., Moraceae); however, the feeding behaviour of most nematodes is not known. Fig pollinating wasps (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) transfer nematodes into young figs upon the wasps’ entry ...
Jauharlina, Hartati Oktarina, Rina Sriwati, Muhammad Sayuthi, Natsumi Kanzaki, Rupert J. Quinnell, Stephen G. Compton   +6 more
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Naturalization of the bodhi fig tree (Ficus religiosa L. - Moraceae) in Brazil

Bioscience Journal, 2017
Ficus religiosa L. is one of the most valued cultivated ornamental fig trees. Native to Asia, it is known as Bodhi tree. Since fig trees are involved in a highly species-specific pollination mutualism with agaonid wasps, exotic fig species usually fail ...
Marcelo Dias Vianna-Filho, Ruy José Válka Alves, Yan-Qiong Peng, Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira   +3 more
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Asymmetric sharing of pollinator fig wasps between two sympatric dioecious fig trees: a reflection of supply and demand or differences in the size of their figs?

Botanical Studies, 2022
Background Host specificity among pollinator fig wasps (Agaonidae) depends on host plant specific volatile cues, but fig wasps must also pass through a narrow physical barrier (the ostiole) if they are to pollinate and oviposit.
Hui Yu, Zhiwei Zhang, Lu Liu, Yufen Cheng, Xiaoxia Deng, Simon T. Segar, Stephen G. Compton   +6 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, Kambiz Minaei, Hamid Zare   +2 more
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Field sampling of fig pollinator wasps across host species and host developmental phase: Implications for host recognition and specificity

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Previous genetic studies of pollinator wasps associated with a community of strangler figs (Ficus subgenus Urostigma, section Americana) in Central Panama suggest that the wasp species exhibit a range in host specificity across their host figs. To better
Aafke Oldenbeuving, Adalberto Gómez‐Zúniga, Ximena Florez‐Buitrago, Ana M. Gutiérrez‐Zuluaga, Carlos A. Machado, Tom J. M. Van Dooren, Jacques vanAlphen, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Edward Allen Herre   +8 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, Yaolin Liao, Yufen Cheng, Yongxia Jia, Stephen G. Compton   +4 more
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Field studies reveal a close relative of C. elegans thrives in the fresh figs of Ficus septica and disperses on its Ceratosolen pollinating wasps

BMC Ecology, 2018
Background Biotic interactions are ubiquitous and require information from ecology, evolutionary biology, and functional genetics in order to be understood. However, study systems that are amenable to investigations across such disparate fields are rare.
Gavin C. Woodruff, Patrick C. Phillips
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