One fig to bind them all: Host conservatism in a fig wasp community unraveled by cospeciation analyses among pollinating and nonpollinating fig wasps

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1777-1797

  Jousselin, Emmanuelle ^a   Van Noort, Simon ^b   Berry, Vincent ^c   Rasplus, Jean Yves ^a   Rønsted, Nina ^d   Erasmus, J Christoff ^e   Greeff, Jaco M ^e  

^a CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^b IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^c LIRMM   (France)

^d JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Fig wasps; Host utilization; Mutualism; Phylogeny; Randomization; Specialization; Supertree

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DIVERGENCE; EVERGREEN TREE; MUTUALISM; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FICUS; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMALS; FICUS; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS;

AGAONIDAE; CHALCIDIDAE; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); HEXAPODA; MORACEAE;

EID: 47349120434     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00406.x     Document Type: Article

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