Comparison of reproductive strategies in two externally ovipositing non-pollinating fig wasps

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	Comparison of reproductive strategies in two externally ovipositing non-pollinating fig wasps
	Wang, Zhen-Ji ; Zhang, Feng-Ping ; Peng, Yan-Qiong ; Bai, Li-Fen ; Yang, Da-Rong
刊名	SYMBIOSIS
	2010
卷号	51 期号:2 页码:181-186
关键词	Reproductive strategies Fig wasp Larvae diet Sex ratio LOCAL MATE COMPETITION SEX-RATIO ADJUSTMENT FICUS EVOLUTION MUTUALISM ECOLOGY XISHUANGBANNA CONSERVATISM COMMUNITIES POPULATION
ISSN号	0334-5114
通讯作者	Yang, DR (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, 88 Xuefu Rd, Kunming 650223, Yunnan, Peoples R China. yangdr@xtbg.ac.cn
英文摘要	The reproductive strategies of Walkerella sp.1 associated with Ficus curtipes and Walkerella sp.2 associated with Ficus benjamina were investigated. Both species oviposited from outside the fig wall. Walkerella sp.1 was the first non-pollinating fig to oviposit on Ficus curtipes and began to do this ten days after figs syconia began to develop. The larvae of Walkerella sp.1 were only found in the most external ovary layer of the fig. Walkerella sp.2 starts ovipositing after several other non-pollinating fig wasps have already laid their eggs in F. benjamina. The progeny of Walkerella sp.2 are distributed in the external ovary layer, the middle ovary layer, and/or the inner ovary layer of the figs. However, more than a quarter of the offspring were found in the most external layer and only a few in the inner layer. Experimental studies proved that the two Walkerella species are gall formers. In both manipulated figs and in natural figs, the sex ratios of Walkerella sp.1 and Walkerella sp.2 were female-biased. In Walkerella sp.2, the overall sex ratio increased with the proportion of figs parasitized in a crop, but this was not the case for Walkerella sp.1. Females of both Walkerella species appear not to have information about the patches on which they oviposit because sex ratios of both species decreased as brood sizes within individual figs increased and foundresses of both species were able to lay clutches containing a single male egg and several female eggs.
学科主题	Microbiology
收录类别	SCI
资助信息	Chinese Natural Science foundation[30970403, 30970439]
语种	英语
公开日期	2012-10-12
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/15520]
专题	昆明植物研究所_中国科学院东亚植物多样性与生物地理学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Zhen-Ji,Zhang, Feng-Ping,Peng, Yan-Qiong,et al. Comparison of reproductive strategies in two externally ovipositing non-pollinating fig wasps[J]. SYMBIOSIS,2010,51(2):181-186.
APA	Wang, Zhen-Ji,Zhang, Feng-Ping,Peng, Yan-Qiong,Bai, Li-Fen,&Yang, Da-Rong.(2010).Comparison of reproductive strategies in two externally ovipositing non-pollinating fig wasps.SYMBIOSIS,51(2),181-186.
MLA	Wang, Zhen-Ji,et al."Comparison of reproductive strategies in two externally ovipositing non-pollinating fig wasps".SYMBIOSIS 51.2(2010):181-186.