Critical review of host specificity and its coevolutionary implications in the fig/fig-wasp mutualism

Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 120-142

  Machado, Carlos A ^a   Robbins, Nancy ^b   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a   Herre, Edward Allen ^b  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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DOI: 10.17226/11310     Document Type: Chapter

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