A role for parasites in stabilising the fig-pollinator mutualism.
Mutualisms are interspecific interactions in which both players benefit. Explaining their maintenance is problematic, because cheaters should outcompete cooperative conspecifics, leading to mutualism instability. Monoecious figs (Ficus) are pollinated by host-specific wasps (Agaonidae), whose larvae...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2008
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