Can chemical signals, responsible for mutualistic partner encounter, promote the specific exploitation of nursery pollination mutualisms? - The case of figs and fig wasps

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-57

  Proffit, Magali ^a   Chen, Chun ^b   Soler, Catherine ^a   Bessière, Jean Marie ^c   Schatz, Bertrand ^a   Hossaert Mckey, Martine ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Agaonidae; Bioassays; Ceratosolen solmsi marchali; Chemical mediation; Cleptoparasite; Ficus hispida; Moraceae; Philotrypesis pilosa; Pteromalidae; Specific attraction; Volatile compounds

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; DICOTYLEDON; MUTUALISM; OLFACTION; PARASITISM; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; WASP;

AGAONIDAE; CERATOSOLEN SOLMSI; CHALCIDOIDEA; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); FICUS HISPIDA; FICUS RACEMOSA; FICUS TINCTORIA; HYMENOPTERA; MORACEAE; PHILOTRYPESIS PILOSA; PTEROMALIDAE;

EID: 61849115602     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00823.x     Document Type: Article

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