Testing the emergence of new caledonia: Fig wasp mutualism as a case study and a review of evidence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Cruaud, Astrid ^a   Jabbour Zahab, Roula ^a   Genson, Gwenaëlle ^a   Ungricht, Stefan ^b   Rasplus, Jean Yves ^a  

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOLICHORIS; EVOLUTION; FIG; NEW CALEDONIA; NONHUMAN; OREOSYCEA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TAXONOMY; WASP; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FICUS; GEOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHILIPPINES; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGAONIDAE; ANIMALIA; DOLICHORIS; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); HYMENOPTERA; MORACEAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CALIBRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FICUS; GEOLOGY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW CALEDONIA; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WASPS;

EID: 84857482079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030941     Document Type: Article

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