Measuring the discrepancy between fecundity and lifetime reproductive success in a pollinating fig wasp
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| 作者 | Dunn DW[*]1; Jansen-Gonzalez S2; Cook JM1; Yu DW3,4; Pereira RAS5 |
| 刊名 | ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA
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| 出版日期 | 2011 |
| 卷号 | 140期号:3页码:218-225 |
| 关键词 | mutualism oviposition egg load fitness wasp gall |
| 通讯作者 | d.w.dunn@reading.ac.uk |
| 英文摘要 | Lifetime reproductive success in female insects is often egg-or time-limited. For instance in pro-ovigenic species, when oviposition sites are abundant, females may quickly become devoid of eggs. Conversely, in the absence of suitable oviposition sites, females may die before laying all of their eggs. In pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae), each species has an obligate mutualism with its host fig tree species [Ficus spp. (Moraceae)]. These pro-ovigenic wasps oviposit in individual ovaries within the inflorescences of monoecious Ficus (syconia, or 'figs'), which contain many flowers. Each female flower can thus become a seed or be converted into a wasp gall. The mystery is that the wasps never oviposit in all fig ovaries, even when a fig contains enough wasp females with enough eggs to do so. The failure of all wasps to translate all of their eggs into offspring clearly contributes to mutualism persistence, but the underlying causal mechanisms are unclear. We found in an undescribed Brazilian Pegoscapus wasp population that the lifetime reproductive success of lone foundresses was relatively unaffected by constraints on oviposition. The number of offspring produced by lone foundresses experimentally introduced into receptive figs was generally lower than the numbers of eggs carried, despite the fact that the wasps were able to lay all or most of their eggs. Because we excluded any effects of intraspecific competitors and parasitic non-pollinating wasps, our data suggest that some pollinators produce few offspring because some of their eggs or larvae are unviable or are victims of plant defences. |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 资助信息 | We wish to thank the late Ross Crozier and his group for enablingusto initiatethiswork,whichwas supportedby a NERC grant (JMC & DWY), FAPESP (04⁄10299-4) and CNPq (302769⁄2008-0) grants (RASP), a FAPESP (06⁄ 05465-8) fellowship (SJG), a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (DWD), and grants 20080A001, 0902281081, KSCX2-YW-Z-1027, and Y002731079 to DWY. |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 公开日期 | 2011-08-18 |
| 源URL | [http://159.226.149.42:8088/handle/353002/6658]  |
| 专题 | 昆明动物研究所_动物生态学研究中心 昆明动物研究所_遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室 |
| 作者单位 | 1.SchoolofBiologicalSciences,UniversityofReading,ReadingRG66AS,UK 2.Pos-graduac ¸aoemEntomologia⁄FFCLRP- USP,Ribeira ˜oPreto,Brazil 3.SchoolofBiologicalSciences,UniversityofEastAnglia,NorwichNR74TJ,UK 4.Ecology,Con- servation,andEnvironmentCenter(ECEC),StateKeyLaboratoryofGeneticResourcesandEvolution,KunmingInstituteof Zoology,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Kunming,Yunnan650223China 5.DeptodeBiologia⁄FFCLRP-USP,Ribeira ˜o Preto,Brazil |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dunn DW[*],Jansen-Gonzalez S,Cook JM,et al. Measuring the discrepancy between fecundity and lifetime reproductive success in a pollinating fig wasp[J]. ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA,2011,140(3):218-225. |
| APA | Dunn DW[*],Jansen-Gonzalez S,Cook JM,Yu DW,&Pereira RAS.(2011).Measuring the discrepancy between fecundity and lifetime reproductive success in a pollinating fig wasp.ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA,140(3),218-225. |
| MLA | Dunn DW[*],et al."Measuring the discrepancy between fecundity and lifetime reproductive success in a pollinating fig wasp".ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA 140.3(2011):218-225. |
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