Exceptions to the one:one relationship between African fig trees and their fig wasp pollinators: Possible evolutionary scenarios

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 513-520

  Michaloud, G ^a   Carriere S ^a   Kobbi, M ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; fig tree; fig wasp; speciation; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

AGAONIDAE; AGAONINAE; CHALCIDOIDEA; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); HYMENOPTERA; MORACEAE; VESPIDAE; FICUS;

EVOLUTION; FIG; FIG WASP; MUTUALISM;

AFRICA;

EID: 0030302917     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.1996.tb00013.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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