Evolutionary ecology of figs and their associates: recent progress and outstanding puzzles

EA Herre, KC Jandér… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2008 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade a proliferation of research has enriched and dramatically altered our
understanding of the biology of figs, their pollinator wasps, and the myriad of other …

Critical review of host specificity and its coevolutionary implications in the fig/fig-wasp mutualism

CA Machado, N Robbins… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Figs (Ficus spp., Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea)
constitute perhaps the most tightly integrated pollination mutualism that is known. Figs are …

Genomes of the banyan tree and pollinator wasp provide insights into fig-wasp coevolution

X Zhang, G Wang, S Zhang, S Chen, Y Wang, P Wen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Banyan trees are distinguished by their extraordinary aerial roots. The Ficus genus includes
species that have evolved a species-specific mutualism system with wasp pollinators. We …

An extreme case of plant–insect codiversification: figs and fig-pollinating wasps

A Cruaud, N Rønsted, B Chantarasuwan… - Systematic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
It is thought that speciation in phytophagous insects is often due to colonization of novel host
plants, because radiations of plant and insect lineages are typically asynchronous. Recent …

[图书][B] Tropical rain forests: an ecological and biogeographical comparison

RT Corlett, RB Primack - 2011 - books.google.com
The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison
exploded the myth of 'the rain forest'as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical …

Echoes of ancient introgression punctuate stable genomic lineages in the evolution of figs

EM Gardner, S Bruun-Lund… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Studies investigating the evolution of flowering plants have long focused on isolating
mechanisms such as pollinator specificity. Some recent studies have proposed a role for …

Structure in plant–animal interaction assemblages

TM Lewinsohn, P Inácio Prado, P Jordano… - Oikos, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present a comprehensive approach to detect pattern in assemblages of plant and animal
species linked by interactions such as pollination, frugivory or herbivory. Simple structural …

Radiation of the Australian flora: what can comparisons of molecular phylogenies across multiple taxa tell us about the evolution of diversity in present–day …

M Crisp, L Cook, D Steane - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2004 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Australian fossil record shows that from ca. 25 Myr ago, the aseasonal–wet biome
(rainforest and wet heath) gave way to the unique Australian sclerophyll biomes dominated …

The phylogenetic distribution of extrafloral nectaries in plants

MG Weber, KH Keeler - Annals of botany, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Understanding the evolutionary patterns of ecologically
relevant traits is a central goal in plant biology. However, for most important traits, we lack …

Figs and the diversity of tropical rainforests

RD Harrison - Bioscience, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Ficus (Moraceae) is arguably one of the most important plant genera in lowland tropical
rainforests. A brief review of tropical florulas also demonstrates that Ficus is the only …