Maintenance of specificity in sympatric host-specific fig/wasp pollination mutualisms

Background Fig/wasp pollination mutualisms are extreme examples of species-specific plant-insect symbioses, but incomplete specificity occurs, with potentially important evolutionary consequences. Why pollinators enter alternative hosts, and the fates of pollinators and the figs they enter, are unkn...

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Main Authors: Hua Xie, Pei Yang, Yan Xia, Finn Kjellberg, Clive T. Darwell, Zong-Bo Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2022-08-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/13897.pdf