ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
The evolution of parasitism from mutualism in wasps pollinating the fig,
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Concurrent ecological and evolutionary processes contribute to mutualism breakdown between legumes and rhizobia.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Demography and adaptation of a species specific pollinator associated with an invasive fig tree.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Fig abscission as a defense mechanism of Ficus trees against parasitism by non-pollinating fig wasps.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Trait matching in a multi-species geographic mosaic of leafflower plants, brood pollinators, and cheaters.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Diversity and metabolic potentials of microbial communities associated with pollinator and cheater fig wasps in fig-fig wasp mutualism system.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- More examples of breakdown the 1:1 partner specificity between figs and fig wasps.Botanical studies · 2021Article
- Corolla Abscission Triggered by Nectar Robbers Positively Affects Reproduction by Enhancing Self-Pollination inBiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Theory identifies factors that can undermine the evolutionary stability of mutualisms. However, theory's relevance to mutualism stability in nature is controversial. Detailed comparative studies of parasitic species that are embedded within otherwise mutualistic taxa (e.g., fig pollinator wasps) can identify factors that potentially promote or undermine mutualism stability. We describe results from behavioral, morphological, phylogenetic, and experimental studies of two functionally distinct, but closely related,
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