Bibliography on Wasps as pollinators of the fig tree

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• ANSTETT, M. C., BRONSTEIN, J. L. and M. ILOSSACRT
• 1996
• Resource allocation: a conflict in the fig/fig wasp mutualism? J. Evol. Biol. No. 9. Pages 417-428.
  
  Available online:
  www.academia.edu/21357201/Resource_allocation_a_conflict_in_the_fig_fig_wasp_mutualism

 

• ANSTETT, M. C.
• 2001
• Unbeatable strategy, constraint and coevolution, or how to resolve evolutionary conflicts: the case of the fig/wasp mutualism. Oikos. No. 95. Pages 476-484.
  
  Available online:
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950313.x/full

 

• COOK, J. M. and J. RASPLUS
• 2003
• Mutualists with attitude: coevolving fig wasps and figs. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 18, No. 5. Pages 241-248.
  
  Available online:
  www.efn.uncor.edu/departamentos/divbioeco/otras/
  simbiosis/materiales/articulos/cook%20%26%20raspalus%202003.pdf

 

• GALIL, J.
• 1977
• Fig biology. Endeavor. No. 1. Pages 52-56.
  
  Available online:
  http://files.myl.be/Fig-Biology-by-J-Galil-lO4dzXP8KK/Fig-Biology-by-J-Galil.pdf

 

• JANDÉR, K. C. and E. A. HERRE
• 2010
• Host sanctions and pollinator cheating in the fig tree-fig wasp mutualism. Proceeding of the royal society. No. 277. Pages 1481-1488.
  
  Available online:
  www.researchgate.net/publication/41012736_Host_sanctions_and_pollinator
  _cheating_in_the_fig_tree-fig_wasp_mutualism

 

• JEVANANDAM, N., GOH, A. G. and R. T. CORLETT
• 2013
• Climate warming and the potential extinction of fig wasps, the obligate pollinators of figs. Biology letters. No. 9. 4 pages.
  
  Available online:
  www.academia.edu/18830182/Climate_warming_and_the_potential_extinction
  _of_fig_wasps_the_obligate_pollinators_of_figs

 

• JOUSSELIN, E., HOSSAERT, M., HERRE, E. A. and F. KJELLBERG
• 2003
• Why do fig wasps actively pollinate monoecious figs? Oecología. No. 134. Pages 381-387.
  
  Available online:
  https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/44549071/Why_do_fig_wasps
  _actively_pollinate_mono20160408-20639-193vky8.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=
  AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=
  1514327943&Signature=NydT%2FRg%2FeOPDNLOw%2FOoLTq5LeD0%
  3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DWhy_do_fig
  _wasps_actively_pollinate_mono.pdf

 

• LÓPEZ, C., RASPLUS, J., WEIBLEN, G. D. and J. M. COOK
• 2001
• Molecular phylogenies of fig wasps: partial cocladogenesis of pollinators and parasites. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. Vol. 21, No. 1. Pages 55-71.
  
  Available online:
  http://baloun.entu.cas.cz/png/LopezetalMPE01.pdf

 

• MARUSSICH, W. A. and C. A. MACHADO
• 2007
• Host-specificity and coevolution among pollinating and nonpollinating New World fig wasps. Molecular Ecology. No. 16. Pages 1925-1946.
  
  Available online:
  www.bio-nica.info/Biblioteca/Marussich2007WaspsCoevolution.pdf

 

• NASON, J. D., ALLEN, E. and J. L. HAMRICK
• 1998
• The breeding structure of a tropical keystone plant resource. NATURE. Vol. 391. Pages 685-687.
  
  Available online:
  www.researchgate.net/profile/Edward_Herre/publication/238338479_The_
  breeding_structure_of_a_tropical_keystone_plant_species/links/542959380cf26120b7b5dee2.pdf

 

• RAJA, S., SULEMAN, N. and S. G. COMPTON
• 2008
• Why do fig wasps pollinate female figs? SYMBIOSIS. No. 45. Pages 25-28.
  
  Available online:
  www.researchgate.net/publication/232257630_Why_do_fig_wasps_pollinate_female_figs

 

• RAMÍREZ, W. and J. MALAVASI
• 1997
• Fig wasps: mechanisms of pollen transfer in Malvanthera and Pharmacosycea figs (Moraceae). Revista de biología tropical. Vol. 45, No. 4. Pages 1635-1640.
  
  Available online:
  https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/download/21500/21758

 

• RONSTED, N., WEIBLEN, G. D., COOK, J. M., SALAMIN, N., MACHADO, C. A. and V. SAVOLAINEN
• 2005
• 60 million years of co-divergence in the fig-wasp symbiosis. Proceedings of the royal society. No. 272. Pages 2593-2599.
  
  Available online:
  www.academia.edu/13763362/60_million_years_of_co-divergence_in_the_fig-wasp_symbiosis

 

• WEIBLEN, G. D.
• 2002
• How to be a fig wasp. Annu. Rev. Entomol. No. 47. Pages 299-330.
  
  Available online:
  www.life.umd.edu/faculty/wilkinson/BIOL608W/Weiblen2002ARE.pdf

 

• WEST, S. A., HERRE, E. A., COMPTON, S. G., GODFRAY, H. C. and J. M. COOK
• 1997
• A comparative study of virginity in fig wasps. Animal behavior. No. 54. Pages 437-450.
  
  Available online:
  www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/group/west/pdf/Westetal_97_VirgI.pdf

 

Suggested web pages with photos and information on Wasps as pollinators of the fig tree

www.britannica.com/animal/fig-wasp
Information.

https://askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/life-and-death-fig-wasp
Information and illustrations.

www.esa.org/esablog/research/the-story-of-the-fig-and-its-wasp/
Information.

www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/fig-wasps-hacked-system/
Information and photos.

www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/fig_wasp.shtml
Information, photos and illustration.

www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/every-time-fig-born-there-wasp-massacre/
Information.

   

First posted, December 2017.

Bibliography prepared by Marcella Sarti, FLAAR Mesoamerica.