Fig Wasps: Mechanism of Pollen Transfer
- 7 February 1969
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 163 (3867) , 580-581
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.163.3867.580
Abstract
The fig ( Ficus ) is absolutely dependent upon pollination by minute agaonid wasps for development of fertile seeds. In some species of the wasp genera Agaon , Allotriozoon , Blastophaga , Ceratosolen , Elisabethiella , Liporrhopalum , and Pleistodontes , the females possess concavities ("corbiculae") to carry pollen. The New World Tetrapus and some Old World Blastophaga lack pollen-carrying structures and may carry pollen dusted over the body or in the digestive tract.Keywords
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