Literature DB >> 17750894

Fig wasps: mechanism of pollen transfer.

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Abstract

The fig (Ficus) is absolutely dependent upon pollination by minute agaonid wasps for development of fertile seeds. In some species of the wasp genera Agaon, Allotriozoon, Blastophaga, Ceratosolen, Elisabethiella, Liporrhopalum, and Pleistodontes, the females possess concavities ("corbiculae") to carry pollen. The New World Tetrapus and some Old World Blastophaga lack pollen-carrying structures and may carry pollen dusted over the body or in the digestive tract.

Year:  1969        PMID： 17750894     DOI： 10.1126/science.163.3867.580

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN： 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


  8 in total

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2.  A chromosome-level genome assembly of the pollinating fig wasp Valisia javana.

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Journal:  DNA Res       Date:  2022-05-27       Impact factor: 4.477

3.  Flower orientation in Gloriosa superba (Colchicaceae) promotes cross-pollination via butterfly wings.

Authors:  Ryan J Daniels; Steven D Johnson; Craig I Peter
Journal:  Ann Bot       Date:  2020-06-01       Impact factor: 4.357

4.  Riparian Ficus tree communities: the distribution and abundance of riparian fig trees in northern Thailand.

Authors:  Pornwiwan Pothasin; Stephen G Compton; Prasit Wangpakapattanawong
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2014-10-13       Impact factor: 3.240

5.  Seasonality of Leaf and Fig Production in Ficus squamosa, a Fig Tree with Seeds Dispersed by Water.

Authors:  Pornwiwan Pothasin; Stephen G Compton; Prasit Wangpakapattanawong
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2016-03-24       Impact factor: 3.240

6.  The evolution of parasitism from mutualism in wasps pollinating the fig, Ficus microcarpa, in Yunnan Province, China.

Authors:  Ting Zhang; K Charlotte Jandér; Jian-Feng Huang; Bo Wang; Jiang-Bo Zhao; Bai-Ge Miao; Yan-Qiong Peng; Edward Allen Herre
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2021-08-10       Impact factor: 11.205

7.  Larger fig wasps are more careful about which figs to enter--with good reason.

Authors:  Cong Liu; Da-Rong Yang; Stephen G Compton; Yan-Qiong Peng
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2013-09-23       Impact factor: 3.240

8.  Has pollination mode shaped the evolution of ficus pollen?

Authors:  Gang Wang; Jin Chen; Zong-Bo Li; Feng-Ping Zhang; Da-Rong Yang
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2014-01-23       Impact factor: 3.240
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