Mutualists with attitude: Coevolving fig wasps and figs

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 241-248

  Cook, James M ^a   Rasplus, Jean Yves ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; MUTUALISM; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATOR;

AGAONIDAE; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); HYMENOPTERA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0037687968     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00062-4     Document Type: Review

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