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African parasitoid fig wasp diversification is a function of Ficus species ranges
(2010)Host specificity is a fundamental property implicit in obligate insect-plant associations. Rigid life history constraints exhibited by parasitoid fig wasps are believed to select for specialization directed at fig trees ... -
Life on the edge: Rare and restricted episodes of a pan-tropical mutualism adapting to drier climates
(2011)The fig tree-fig wasp obligate pollination mutualism has strong ancestral affinities with tropical communities, but is present in much drier contemporary biomes, especially at higher latitudes at the edge of their range. ...