Satler, Jordan D Herre, Edward Allen Jandér, K Charlotte Eaton, Deren A R Machado, Carlos A Heath, Tracy A Nason, John D
Published in
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
The fig and pollinator wasp obligate mutualism is diverse (∼750 described species), ecologically important, and ancient (∼80 Ma). Once thought to be an example of strict one-to-one cospeciation, current thinking suggests genera of pollinator wasps codiversify with corresponding sections of figs, but the degree to which cospeciation or other process...
Cropp, Roger A Norbury, John
Published in
The Yale journal of biology and medicine
The development of a theory to underpin the obligate mutualist interactions that appear to be ubiquitous in nature has not proceeded at the same pace as the development of theory to support competition and predation. A constraint may be that obligate mutualism appears unable to be presented in the simple linear models that have so successfully serv...
McKain, Michael R McNeal, Joel R Kellar, P Roxanne Eguiarte, Luis E Pires, J Chris Leebens-Mack, Jim
Published in
American journal of botany
Yucca species are ideal candidates for the study of coevolution due to the obligate mutualism they form with yucca moth pollinators (genera Tegeticula and Parategeticula). Yuccas are not the only species to exhibit a mutualism with yucca moths; the genus Hesperoyucca is pollinated by the California yucca moth (Tegeticula maculata). Relationships am...
Breum Andersen, Sandra Yek, Sze Huei Nash, David R. Boomsma, Jacobus J.
Background: The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions. In addition to cultivating fungus gardens, these ants have domesticated actinomycete bacteria to defend gardens against the fungal parasite Escovopsis and possibl...
Breum Andersen, Sandra Yek, Sze Huei Nash, David R. Boomsma, Jacobus J.
Background: The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions. In addition to cultivating fungus gardens, these ants have domesticated actinomycete bacteria to defend gardens against the fungal parasite Escovopsis and possibl...
Breum Andersen, Sandra Yek, Sze Huei Nash, David R. Boomsma, Jacobus J.
Background: The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions. In addition to cultivating fungus gardens, these ants have domesticated actinomycete bacteria to defend gardens against the fungal parasite Escovopsis and possibl...
Breum Andersen, Sandra Yek, Sze Huei Nash, David R. Boomsma, Jacobus J.
Background: The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions. In addition to cultivating fungus gardens, these ants have domesticated actinomycete bacteria to defend gardens against the fungal parasite Escovopsis and possibl...
Breum Andersen, Sandra Yek, Sze Huei Nash, David R. Boomsma, Jacobus J.
Background: The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions. In addition to cultivating fungus gardens, these ants have domesticated actinomycete bacteria to defend gardens against the fungal parasite Escovopsis and possibl...
Breum Andersen, Sandra Yek, Sze Huei Nash, David R. Boomsma, Jacobus J.
Background: The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions. In addition to cultivating fungus gardens, these ants have domesticated actinomycete bacteria to defend gardens against the fungal parasite Escovopsis and possibl...
Breum Andersen, Sandra Yek, Sze Huei Nash, David R. Boomsma, Jacobus J.
Background: The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions. In addition to cultivating fungus gardens, these ants have domesticated actinomycete bacteria to defend gardens against the fungal parasite Escovopsis and possibl...
