Only pollinator fig wasps have males that collaborate to release their females from figs of an Asian fig tree

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 344-346

  Suleman, Nazia ^a,b   Raja, Shazia ^a,c   Compton, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NUCLEAR INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY NIAB   (Pakistan)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Aggression; Cooperation; Fighting; Male male interactions; Mutualism; Parasitoid

Indexed keywords

EVERGREEN TREE; FEMALE; FIGHTING; HOST PLANT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MALE; MUTUALISM; PARASITOID; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; WASP;

AGAONIDAE; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); FICUS MONTANA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; KRADIBIA; MORACEAE; SYCOSCAPTER;

EID: 84861494554     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1016     Document Type: Article

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