funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30571507,30670358)
Figs(Ficus, Moraceae) and their pollinating fig wasps(Hymenoptera, Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea) are a striking example of obligate mutualism and coevolution. Agaonid females enter the figs to lay their eggs,but also activ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170408, 31270433, 31370408);the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (31325005);NSFC-Yunnan United Fund (U1302267);the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
It is generally believed that physical heterogeneity in common resource or evolutionary restraint can sufficiently prevent direct conflict between host and symbionts in mutualism systems. Our data on fig/fig wasp reci...
The Chinese Natural Science Foundation(31372253,31120002);the Young and Middle Aged Academic Leaders of Yunnan Province(2011HB041);the CAS 135 program(XTBG-T01,XTBG-T01,F01).
Aims most pollinator fig wasps are host plant specific,with each spe-cies only breeding in the figs of one fig tree species,but increasing numbers of species are known to be pollinated by more than one fig wasp,and in...