Pollinating fig wasps’ simple solutions to complex sex ratio problems: a review

Making the most of your pollinators: An epiphytic fig tree encourages its pollinators to roam between figs

(2021) Siti Khairiyah Mohd Hatta et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The cost of parasitism: High larval developmental mortality following attacks by a parasitoid fig wasp on a fig pollinating wasp

(2020) Xiao-Wei Zhang et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Low‐coverage genomic data resolve the population divergence and gene flow history of an Australian rain forest fig wasp

(2020) Lisa Cooper et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Adjustment of sex allocation to co‐foundress number and kinship under local mate competition: an inclusive‐fitness analysis

(2020) Andy Gardner et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The efficacy of natural selection in producing optimal sex ratio adjustments in a fig wasp species

(2020) Jaco M. Greeff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolutionary stable sex ratios with non-facultative male-eggs first sex allocation in fig wasps

(2019) Nico Chung et al.   OIKOS

Multiple parapatric pollinators have radiated across a continental fig tree displaying clinal genetic variation

(2019) Hui Yu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Egg load is a cue for offspring sex ratio adjustment in a fig‐pollinating wasp with male‐eggs‐first sex allocation

(2019) Xiao‐Wei Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Spatial variation in pollinator gall failure within figs of the gynodioecious Ficus hirta

(2018) Hui Yu et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Figs, pollinators, and parasites: A longitudinal study of the effects of nematode infection on fig wasp fitness

(2018) Justin Van Goor et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Host sanctions in Panamanian Ficus are likely based on selective resource allocation

(2016) K. Charlotte Jandér et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Fitness reduction for uncooperative fig wasps through reduced offspring size: a third component of host sanctions

(2016) K. C. Jandér et al.   ECOLOGY

Tracking the elusive history of diversification in plant-herbivorous insect-parasitoid food webs: insights from figs and fig wasps

(2016) Finn Kjellberg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ultrastructural Characterization of the Lower Motor System in a Mouse Model of Krabbe Disease

(2016) Valentina Cappello et al.   Scientific Reports

Lack of genetic isolation by distance, similar genetic structuring but different demographic histories in a fig-pollinating wasp mutualism

(2015) Enwei Tian et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Fig wasps from the centre of figs have more chances to mate, more offspring and more female-biased offspring sex ratios

(2014) Yan-Qiong Peng et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mortal combat and competition for oviposition sites in female pollinating fig wasps

(2014) D. W. Dunn et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Molecular species delimitation of a symbiotic fig-pollinating wasp species complex reveals extreme deviation from reciprocal partner specificity

(2014) Clive T Darwell et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Interactions between pollinator and non-pollinator fig wasps: correlations between their numbers can be misleading

(2014) Shazia Raja et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A switch from mutualist to exploiter is reflected in smaller egg loads and increased larval mortalities in a ‘cheater’ fig wasp

(2013) Jiang-Bo Zhao et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecology of a fig ant–plant

(2013) Rhett D. Harrison   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Parasitism of a pollinator fig wasp: mortalities are higher in figs with more pollinators, but are not related to local densities of figs

(2013) NAZIA SULEMAN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Consistently high incidence ofWolbachiain global fig wasp communities

(2013) MUHAMMAD Z. AHMED et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Putting your eggs in several baskets: oviposition in a wasp that walks between several figs

(2013) Nazia Suleman et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Larger Fig Wasps Are More Careful About Which Figs to Enter – With Good Reason

(2013) Cong Liu et al.   PLoS One

Mutualism from the inside: coordinated development of plant and insect in an active pollinating fig wasp

(2012) Sergio Jansen-González et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Precision of host sanctions in the fig tree-fig wasp mutualism: consequences for uncooperative symbionts

(2012) K. Charlotte Jandér et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Pollinating fig waspCeratosolen solmsiadjusts the offspring sex ratio to other foundresses

(2012) Hao-Yuan Hu et al.   Insect Science

Parasites and mutualism function: measuring enemy-free space in a fig-pollinator symbiosis

(2012) Sarah Al-Beidh et al.   OIKOS

Moving Your Sons to Safety: Galls Containing Male Fig Wasps Expand into the Centre of Figs, Away From Enemies

(2012) Hui Yu et al.   PLoS One

An Extreme Case of Plant–Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps

(2012) Astrid Cruaud et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Development of microsatellite loci for Blastophaga javana (Agaonidae), the pollinating wasp of Ficus hirta (Moraceae)

(2011) En-Wei Tian et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Pollinator sharing in dioecious figs (Ficus: Moraceae)

(2011) ANNIKA M. MOE et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

(2011) N. Suleman et al.   Biology Letters

Costs of inflorescence longevity for an Asian fig tree and its pollinator

(2011) Yuan Zhang et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Factors Influencing Realized Sex Ratios in Fig Wasps: Double Oviposition and Larval Mortalities

(2011) Salah Ghana et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Floral volatiles, pollinator sharing and diversification in the fig-wasp mutualism: insights from Ficus natalensis, and its two wasp pollinators (South Africa)

(2011) A. Cornille et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Permeability of receptive fig fruits and its effects on the re-emergence behaviour of pollinators

(2010) HU HAO-YUAN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

TESTING MODELS OF FACULTATIVE SEX RATIO ADJUSTMENT IN THE POLLINATING FIG WASP PLATYSCAPA AWEKEI

(2010) Jaco M. Greeff et al.   EVOLUTION

A Fig Crop Pollinated by Three or More Species of Agaonid Fig Wasps

(2009) S.G. Compton et al.   AFRICAN ENTOMOLOGY

Evolution of the scale and manner of brother competition in pollinating fig wasps

(2009) Ronald M. Nelson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Different Stimuli Reduce Attraction to Pollinators in Male and Female Figs in the Dioecious FigFicus hispida

(2009) Hao-Yuan Hu et al.   BIOTROPICA

The reproductive success of Ficus altissima and its pollinator in a strongly seasonal environment: Xishuangbanna, Southwestern China

(2009) Yan-Qiong Peng et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The mechanism of sex ratio adjustment in a pollinating fig wasp

(2008) S. Raja et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES