The incidence and pattern of copollinator diversification in dioecious and monoecious figs.

ABSTRACT: Differences in breeding system are associated with correlated ecological and morphological changes in plants. In Ficus, dioecy and monoecy are strongly associated with different suites of traits (tree height, population density, fruiting frequency, pollinator dispersal ecology). Although approximately 30% of fig species are pollinated by multiple species of fig-pollinating wasps, it has been suggested that copollinators are rare in dioecious figs. Here, we test whether there is a connection between the fig breeding system and copollinator incidence and diversification by conducting a meta-analysis of molecular data from pollinators of 119 fig species that includes new data from 15 Asian fig species. We find that the incidence of copollinators is not significantly different between monoecio

SUBMITTER: Yang LY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4328460 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature