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Colletotrichum gloeosporioides s.l. associated with Theobroma cacao and other plants in Panamá: multilocus phylogenies distinguish host-associated pathogens from asymptomatic endophytes
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Two new species are formally described, C. tropicale and C. ignotum, that are frequent asymptomatic associates of cacao and other Neotropical plant species, and epitypify C. theobromicola, which is associated with foliar and fruit anthracnose lesions of cacoe and other plant hosts.
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An Extreme Case of Plant–Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps
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Biogeographic analyses indicate that the present-day distribution of fig and pollinator lineages is consistent with a Eurasian origin and subsequent dispersal, rather than with Gondwanan vicariance.
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The caterpillar fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis, genome provides insights into highland adaptation of fungal pathogenicity
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It is found that O. sinensis exhibits latitude-based population divergence and nature selection for population inhabitation towards higher altitudes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, and detects signals of positive selection for genes involved in peroxidase and hypoxia to enable its highland adaptation.
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Quantitative tests of interaction between pollinating and non‐pollinating fig wasps on dioecious Ficus hispida
Abstract.  1. The interaction between Ficus species and their pollinating wasps (Agaonidae) represents a striking example of a mutualism. Figs also shelter numerous non‐pollinating chalcids that…
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The incidence and pattern of copollinator diversification in dioecious and monoecious figs
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A meta‐analysis of molecular data from pollinators of 119 fig species that includes new data from 15 Asian fig species finds that the incidence of copollinators is not significantly different between monoecious and dioecious Ficus.
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Co-occurrence of two Eupristina species on Ficus altissima in Xishuangbanna, SW China
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This study strongly suggests that E. altissima is an active pollinator, while Eupristina sp.
Relative investment in egg load and poison sac in fig wasps: Implications for physiological mechanisms underlying seed and wasp production in figs
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Phylogenetic analyses suggest a hybrid origin of the figs (Moraceae: Ficus) that are endemic to the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan.
  • J. Kusumi, H. Azuma, Z. Su
  • Biology, Environmental Science
    Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
  • 1 April 2012
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‘Push’ and ‘pull’ responses by fig wasps to volatiles released by their host figs
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Volatiles mediating both the initial meeting of the mutualists to achieve pollination and egg laying and the subsequent departure of the next generation of fig wasps are indicated, indicating a more complex relationship between fig volatiles and fig wasp behaviour than previously realized.
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The reproductive success of Ficus altissima and its pollinator in a strongly seasonal environment: Xishuangbanna, Southwestern China
Fig trees (Ficus spp.) are of great ecological significance, producing fruits that are fed on by more birds and mammals than any other plants in the tropics. They are pollinated by host-specific…
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