How to be a fig wasp

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2002, Pages 299-330

  Weiblen, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agaonidae; Coevolution; Cospeciation; Parasitism; Pollination

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AGAONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MORACEAE; VESPIDAE;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; MORACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; WASP;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; MORACEAE; WASPS;

EID: 0036006832     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145213     Document Type: Review

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