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BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background Alternative mating tactics are widespread in animals and associated with extreme morphological polymorphism in some insects. Some fig wasps have both highly modified wingless males and dispersing winged males.
James M. Cook
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Stability in fig tree–fig wasp mutualisms: how to be a cooperative fig wasp [PDF]
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2020 Abstract Fig tree–fig wasp mutualisms are diverse and underpin much biodiversity. The wasps (Agaonidae) are the sole pollinators of the trees (Ficus). Figs are enclosed inflorescences, each of which contains many small flowers. Female wasps (foundresses) enter receptive figs to spread pollen and to lay their eggs individually into fig ...
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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 +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 +3 more
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The fig wasps associated with Ficus microcarpa, an invasive fig tree [PDF]
, 2014 Fig trees and their pollinating fig wasps represent one of the most species-specific mutualistic systems with a long history of co-evolution. Besides the pollinators, figs are also exploited by numerous non-pollinating fig wasps (NPFW).
Wang, Rong
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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 +5 more
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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 +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 +3 more
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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 +8 more
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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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