Claim · model-written summary
Both pollinators could enter and pollinate both fig varieties.
- Taxon
- Ficus semicordata
Ficus semicordatae1 - Interactor
- Ceratosolen fig waspse2pollinator
- Outcome
- enter figs of both varieties and pollinate theme0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Both pollinators could enter figs of both varieties and pollinate them”
e1“two sympatric varieties of Ficus semicordata”
e2“two host-specific Ceratosolen fig wasps”
Title
Gang Wang; Stephen G. Compton; Jin Chen Annals of Botany 2012. doi:10.1093/aob/mcs250
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The two fig varieties had different receptive floral scent compositions.
- Observation Only one Ceratosolen species preferred one scent over the other in Y-tube tests.
- Observation Both pollinator species preferred entering figs of their normal hosts after walking on figs.
- Observation Figs receiving extra-varietal pollen were more likely to abort.
- Observation Figs receiving extra-varietal pollen contained fewer seeds.
- Observation Hybrid seeds germinated at normal rates.
- Mechanism Contact cues and floral scents together maintain pollinator host specificity.
- Mechanism Post-zygotic factors reduce hybrid offspring production but allow possible gene flow.