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Vicarious selection explains some paradoxes in dioecious fig—pollinator systems

1991; Royal Society; Volume: 245; Issue: 1312 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.1991.0090

1471-2954

Alan Grafen, H. Charles J. Godfray,

Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Grafen Alan and Godfray Hugh Charles Jonathan 1991Vicarious selection explains some paradoxes in dioecious fig—pollinator systemsProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.24573–76http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1991.0090SectionRestricted accessArticleVicarious selection explains some paradoxes in dioecious fig—pollinator systems Alan Grafen Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Alan Grafen Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:22 July 1991https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1991.0090AbstractFig trees (Ficusspp.) are pollinated by small hymenopteran wasps that develop within the fig. In dioecious species, female wasps enter and pollinate 'female' figs that produce only seeds and within which the wasp is unable to reproduce. A resolution for three paradoxes in the biology of dioecious fig-pollinator systems is suggested: (i) why wasps enter female flowers, (ii) why they maintain structures and behaviours needed to pollinate female figs, despite the absence of any direct selection on these phenotypes and (iii) why wasps entering male flowers go through the behaviours that would be required to pollinate female figs. Whereas it is obviously in a female fig's interest to conceal her sex from the wasps, it is argued that it is also in a male fig's interest to do so, because the male will benefit only from raising female wasps that, when they leave, successfully find, enter, and pollinate female figs (even though this will be fatal to the wasps).FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. 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This Issue22 July 1991Volume 245Issue 1312 Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1991.0090Published by:Royal SocietyPrint ISSN:0962-8452Online ISSN:1471-2954History: Manuscript received19/02/1991Manuscript accepted11/03/1991Published online01/01/1997Published in print22/07/1991 License:Scanned images copyright © 2017, Royal Society Citations and impact Large datasets are available through Proceedings B's partnership with Dryad