VICARIOUS SELECTION EXPLAINS SOME PARADOXES IN DIOECIOUS FIG POLLINATOR SYSTEMS
Fig trees (Ficus spp.) are pollinated by small hymenopteran wasps that develop within the fig. In dioecious species, female wasps enter and pollinate 'female' figs that produce only seeds and within which the wasp is unable to reproduce. A resolution for three paradoxes in the biology of d...
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1991
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