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Occurrence of internally ovipositing non-agaonid wasps and pollination mode of the associated agaonid wasps

Plant Diversity, 2017
Figs (Ficus, Moraceae) and their pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea) are a striking example of obligate mutualism and coevolution.
Xinmin Zhang, Darong Yang
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Metatranscriptome Analysis of Fig Flowers Provides Insights into Potential Mechanisms for Mutualism Stability and Gall Induction. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
A striking property of the mutualism between figs and their pollinating wasps is that wasps consistently oviposit in the inner flowers of the fig syconium, which develop into galls that house developing larvae.
Ellen O Martinson, Jeremiah D Hackett, Carlos A Machado, A Elizabeth Arnold   +3 more
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Biomechanics of substrate boring by fig wasps [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014
Female insects of diverse orders bore into substrates to deposit their eggs. Such insects must overcome several biomechanical challenges to successfully oviposit, which include the selection of suitable substrates through which the ovipositor can penetrate without itself fracturing.
Lakshminath, Kundanati, Namrata, Gundiah
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Overlaps in olfactive signalling coupled with geographic variation may result in localised pollinator sharing between closely related Ficus species

BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Background In brood site pollination mutualisms, pollinators are attracted by odours emitted at anthesis. In Ficus, odours of receptive figs differ among species and the specific pollinators generally only enter figs of their host species ensuring a pre ...
Xiaoxia Deng, Yufen Cheng, Yan-Qiong Peng, Hui Yu, Magali Proffit, Finn Kjellberg   +5 more
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Conformable Ferrimagnetic Tattoo Electrodes for Plant Electrophysiology

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The newly developed ferrimagnetic tattoo electrode is capable of measuring plant electrophysiological activity outside the Faraday cage. Its ability to adhere without damaging the plant tissue allows long‐term recordings. This premise opens new avenues for in‐field monitoring of plant health through electrophysiology.
Arianna Melis, Andrea Spanu, Fabrizio Antonio Viola, Abdul Manan Dar, Alexandra Sandéhn, Cyril Routier, Annalisa Bonfiglio, Eleni Stavrinidou   +7 more
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Premature attraction of pollinators to inaccessible figs of Ficus altissima: a search for ecological and evolutionary consequences. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Adult life spans of only one or two days characterise life cycles of the fig wasps (Agaonidae) that pollinate fig trees (Ficus spp., Moraceae). Selection is expected to favour traits that maximise the value of the timing of encounters between such ...
Yuan Zhang, Yan-Qiong Peng, Stephen G Compton, Da-Rong Yang   +3 more
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Parasitism Features of a Fig Wasp of Genus Apocrypta (Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae) Associated with a Host Belonging to Ficus Subgenus Ficus

Insects, 2023
Non-pollinating fig wasps (NPFWs), particularly long-ovipositored Sycoryctina wasps, exhibit a high species specificity and exert complex ecological effects on the obligate mutualism between the plant genus Ficus and pollinating fig wasps. Apocrypta is a
Po-An Chou, Anthony Bain, Bhanumas Chantarasuwan, Hsy-Yu Tzeng   +3 more
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Subversion of Atypical Mucin Traps by a Spore‐Coat Effector Blocks Cellular Immunity in Drosophila

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
While the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii can evade insect humoral immunity, its subversion of cellular defenses is still elusive. We identify Eac1 as a spore‐coat protein essential for infecting drosophilids by targeting atypical mucins (Sgf1 and Sgf2), which can entrap spores in a gel matrix and thereby facilitate hemocyte encapsulation.
Shiqin Li, Haimin Chen, Gangqi Fang, Dongxiang Wei, Hongyun Wu, Chen Chen, Song Hong, Chengshu Wang   +7 more
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Human disturbance reduces the network connectivity in female fig wasps more than in males

Global Ecology and Conservation
In ecological communities, the relationships between interacting species are very complex, resulting in nonlinear or even chaotic oscillations. Human activities, such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, overexploitation of natural resources, and ...
Yaxuan Liu, Guangming Zhang, Chen Chen, Zhenyu Liu, Hongqing Wang   +4 more
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HOST SPECIFICITY OF FIG WASPS (AGAONIDAE) [PDF]

Evolution, 1970
For the development of seeds, the figs (Ficus spp.) are dependent upon small chalcidoid wasps of the family Agaonidae. No other means of pollination of fig flowers is available to the plant, and the wasps cannot develop anywhere except in the gall flowers of the fig.2 There has been considerable difference of opinion as to the degree of host ...
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